{"product_id":"untouchable-mulk-raj-anand-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mulk Raj Anand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0141393602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780141393605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Mulk Raj Anand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993930334463,"sku":"9780141393605","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1305922-c388-4dbc-841f-ffe7c174f132.jpg?v=1683327132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/untouchable-mulk-raj-anand-9780141393605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}