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Mán Melá Theatre Company
celebrating the British Asian experience

Our World
Treasure Trove - Khazana
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Mulk Raj Anand

Across the
Black Waters
£7.95

Orient Paperbacks
ISBN 81-222-0258-6

     "The foremost of Indian novelists."
              DAILY TELEGRAPH

Available from SOMA Books
www.somabooks.co.uk

'Across the Black Waters is probably (Anand's) best novel since Untouchable, for it exactly communicates the claustrophobic tension of men in the front line, the imminence of death, and the pervading sense of inevitability which is the source of Anand's anger, and at the same time, is at the root of so much Indian fiction. We never lose awareness that this is an Indian novel ... '

'Anand makes a universal statement about the nature of war apart from the particular tragedy of the Indian sepoys in Flanders in 1914. His descriptions of brutality match in compassion and outrage, and perhaps also in poetic flair, those of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, or David Jones.'

Alastair Niven
Director of Literature of the British Council

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Mán Melá Theatre Company celebrating the British Asian experience
Our World Treasure Trove - Khazana Resources related to the shows
	Mulk Raj Anand Across the Black Waters £7.95 Orient Paperbacks ISBN 81-222-0258-6
"The foremost of Indian novelists." DAILY TELEGRAPH
Available from SOMA Books www.somabooks.co.uk
'Across the Black Waters is probably (Anand's) best novel since Untouchable, for it exactly communicates the claustrophobic tension of men in the front line, the imminence of death, and the pervading sense of inevitability which is the source of Anand's anger, and at the same time, is at the root of so much Indian fiction. We never lose awareness that this is an Indian novel ... ' 'Anand makes a universal statement about the nature of war apart from the particular tragedy of the Indian sepoys in Flanders in 1914. His descriptions of brutality match in compassion and outrage, and perhaps also in poetic flair, those of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, or David Jones.' Alastair Niven Director of Literature of the British Council
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