Book 10 in Ved Mehta’s Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta.In lucid, sparse prose Mehta documents the twists and turns of a romantic history peppered with disappointment and anguish – that is until, in his search for self-understanding, he meets a surprising guide who shows the way toward new insights about himself and those he has loved.