{"product_id":"2026100012611-secondhand-sound-shadows-of-the-new-world","title":"Sound-Shadows Of The New World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948312367323,"sku":"2026100012611-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/37911b48-6f75-43ba-8ac8-c6445ea02518.png?v=1793104471","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012611-secondhand-sound-shadows-of-the-new-world","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}