Untouchable

by Mulk Raj Anand (Author), Mulk Raj Anand (Author), E M Forster (Preface)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $6.46

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $9.46

  Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's caste system: an Untouchable. In deceptively simple prose this groundbreaking novel describes a day in the life of Bakha, sweeper and toilet-cleaner, as he searches for a meaning to the tragic existence he has been born into - and comes to an unexpected conclusion. Mulk Raj Anand poured a vitality, fire and richness of detail into his controversial work, which led him to be acclaimed as his country's Charles Dickens and one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers.