{"product_id":"9780141393612","title":"Engineering Drawing with a Primer on AutoCAD","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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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'One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject' \u003cb\u003eMartin Seymour-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165192405232,"sku":"9780141393612","price":11.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141393612_p0.jpg?v=1763655950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141393612","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}