{"product_id":"untouchable-9780141393605","title":"Untouchable","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of \u003ci\u003eGandhi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid. Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, Anand pours a vitality, fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject' \u003cb\u003eMartin Seymour-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city, and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' \u003cb\u003eE. M. Forster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMulk Raj Anand\u003c\/b\u003e (1905-2004) was among the most highly regarded Indian novelists who wrote in English. Born in Peshawar, he lived in England for many years before settling in a village in Western India after World War II. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamachandra Guha\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a forthcoming two-volume biography of Gandhi and is a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555965702418,"sku":"9780141393605","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a47fa5d1-5cc6-40d7-b9ec-894b5d1ac760.jpg?v=1731746078","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/untouchable-9780141393605","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}