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Of Love and Other Sorrows

Of Love and Other Sorrows

Ten Modernists

Ashok Chopra
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Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary.
Here we come across the dissident Czech writer Václav Havel, who later became the nation’s president; the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, with her pronounced anti-apartheid novels; the Chilean-American Isabel Allende, ‘the world’s most widely read Spanish author’; and Günter Grass, hailed as the ‘literary spokesman of his generation’. We also meet Graham Greene and Milan Kundera alongside the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, who, in his quiet way, ridiculed Islamic fundamentalism. The book is rounded off with three remarkable Latin American writers: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez.
Of Love and Other Sorrows takes the reader on a fascinating journey in the company of some of the biggest names in modern literature. This illuminating study of their lives and works will seduce readers to rediscover these masters for themselves.

Imprint: India Viking

Published: Jan/2016

ISBN: 9780143428879

Length : 288 Pages

MRP : ₹599.00

Of Love and Other Sorrows

Ten Modernists

Ashok Chopra

Reports announcing the death of the book are now rife, but the continued relevance of the ten master writers discussed in this volume is proof to the contrary.
Here we come across the dissident Czech writer Václav Havel, who later became the nation’s president; the South African Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, with her pronounced anti-apartheid novels; the Chilean-American Isabel Allende, ‘the world’s most widely read Spanish author’; and Günter Grass, hailed as the ‘literary spokesman of his generation’. We also meet Graham Greene and Milan Kundera alongside the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, who, in his quiet way, ridiculed Islamic fundamentalism. The book is rounded off with three remarkable Latin American writers: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez.
Of Love and Other Sorrows takes the reader on a fascinating journey in the company of some of the biggest names in modern literature. This illuminating study of their lives and works will seduce readers to rediscover these masters for themselves.

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Ashok Chopra

ASHOK CHOPRA, publisher, editor and author, has occupied some of the hottest seats in the Indian book trade--executive editor of Vikas Publishing House, vice-president of Macmillan India, publishing director of UBS Publishers, founder and executive director of India Today Book Club and publisher of Books Today, as well as chief executive and publisher of HarperCollins Publishers India.
Currently, he is the chief executive of Hay House Publishers India and is working on his next book The Long Road: Journeys into Unknown Lands. He lives in Gurgaon, near Delhi.

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