Nahal chaman (13 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Contents 1. Bejewelled city. 2. Partition and after. 3. Uncle Sam's home. 4. Eastern shores. 5. University Dons. 6. Spirit worlds. 7. Organized violence. 8. Native origins. 9. Cambridge Frills. 10. Hills and Plains. From the small town of Sialkot in pre partition Punjab through the bustling streets of Delhi to the scholarly environs of Cambridge and the bistros of Turin Chaman Nahal walks us gently through his life. A life rich in literary scholarship and discipline but equally in humour and a cynical eye capable of looking as critically at himself as at the follies and foibles of other human beings. If his rules for subjects as varied as writing a full length book while coping with a fulltime job fighting depression or even addiction to drink bring a smile to one's lips his achievements as writer teacher and litterateur often in the face of great odds can only induce respect. Nahal's delightfully candid accounts of his encounters with Nirad Chaudhuri the Great Sir Vidia Manohar Malgonkar and others his diatribes against the tardiness and indiscipline that marks so much of 21 century India and his frank appraisal of the trials and tribulations he has faced as an Indian writer in English both at home and abroad make this a memoir significant in today's literary context as well as an absorbing cameo of an earlier time and place. 286 pp.…

Zustand: New. pp. 286.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Perennial Library edition (stated), 1971.Mass market paperback P #196. Clean and tightly bound with fine, unmarked contents. Light shelf wear and remainder marks on the bottom text block edge, still a nice copy.

Very good cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now in a protective plastic sleeve. Minor library marks remain. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 304 pages ; 22 cm. Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert) 1885-1930 Criticism and interpretation. Psychological fiction, English History and criticism. Fiction in English Lawrence, David Herbert Critical studies. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Life in Sialkot goes on with a hum, until the fateful news arrives, like smoke it lingers and begins to settle into homes that have sheltered generations. Within days reality dawns, terrible passions are unleashed, and lives are rent asunder. In Chaman Nahal's intense novel one encounters the full force of the great tragedy of Partition.…

Soft cover. Zustand: As New.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery Good hardcover; 8 vo; 371 pages; Spine head and heal bumped and nicked; Tips bumped; Tanned pages; Small tear on top edge of back cover; Prompt shipping with tracking.

xvi (advertisements) + 72pp, wrappers little worn, considerable wear and some loss on spine, still a sound copy. Articles on Indian English, Punjabi and Tamil fiction as well as Education in India and Japan, and English as a Second Language.

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 304pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (a little rubbed and marked, price-clipped). ISBN 0498077209.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in fine dust jacket. First American edition.

First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Martin John Banham, Best wishes, Chaman Nahal 1976". Banham is a theatre lecturer and expert in African theatre. He has lectured and directed around the world, including in India. Ironically named "Freedom" ("Azadi"), the novel charts Partition through the eyes of a Hindu family, "a lucid and moving account. told with a confident realism lost to English fiction" (The Observer). It won the 1977 Sahitya Academy Award, the highest award of the National Academy of Letters in India. "Novels in Brief", The Observer, 17 April 1977. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Small bump to foot of spine; jacket unclipped, spine sunned, a few nicks, short closed tears to foot of spine: a near-fine copy in very good jacket.…