Sound-Shadows Of The New World
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At fifteen years old, blind since early childhood and armed with little more than fierce determination, Ved Mehta boards a plane from India to Arkansas — a journey that marks the beginning of a remarkable American education and the forging of an extraordinary life. Sound-Shadows of the New World chronicles Mehta's years at the Arkansas School for the Blind, where he confronts cultural displacement, the brutal hierarchies of institutional life, and the intoxicating promise of self-reinvention in mid-twentieth-century America. The narrative moves with an intimate warmth and unsentimental precision, capturing the bewilderment and exhilaration of a young man navigating a world defined by its sounds, textures, and social codes — a world that is utterly foreign yet destined to become his own. This memoir forms the fifth volume of Mehta's celebrated autobiographical series Continents of Exile, a monumental literary project that stands as one of the most ambitious acts of personal documentation in modern non-fiction. Mehta's prose is distinguished by its crystalline clarity and its ability to render sensory experience with extraordinary vividness, drawing the reader into a perspective that challenges every assumption about sight, identity, and belonging. A writer who transformed the personal essay into high art during his decades at *The New Yorker*, Mehta presents here a portrait of immigrant ambition that resonates far beyond the particulars of his own singular story — leaving the reader to wonder what it truly means to see the world.
Author: Ved Mehta
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, W W Norton & Co. Inc., New York
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At fifteen years old, blind since early childhood and armed with little more than fierce determination, Ved Mehta boards a plane from India to Arkansas — a journey that marks the beginning of a remarkable American education and the forging of an extraordinary life. Sound-Shadows of the New World chronicles Mehta's years at the Arkansas School for the Blind, where he confronts cultural displacement, the brutal hierarchies of institutional life, and the intoxicating promise of self-reinvention in mid-twentieth-century America. The narrative moves with an intimate warmth and unsentimental precision, capturing the bewilderment and exhilaration of a young man navigating a world defined by its sounds, textures, and social codes — a world that is utterly foreign yet destined to become his own. This memoir forms the fifth volume of Mehta's celebrated autobiographical series Continents of Exile, a monumental literary project that stands as one of the most ambitious acts of personal documentation in modern non-fiction. Mehta's prose is distinguished by its crystalline clarity and its ability to render sensory experience with extraordinary vividness, drawing the reader into a perspective that challenges every assumption about sight, identity, and belonging. A writer who transformed the personal essay into high art during his decades at *The New Yorker*, Mehta presents here a portrait of immigrant ambition that resonates far beyond the particulars of his own singular story — leaving the reader to wonder what it truly means to see the world.