All About H. Hatterr

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The Indian author's first novel, with introduction by Anthony Burgess to the revised edition of this outrageously funny novel. Originally published to great acclaim in England in 1948 just one year after Indian independence. This is generally considered the first post-colonial novel of Indian literature.

Desani revised this novel several times over the next almost 40 years. This revised edition has an introduction by Anthony Burgess.

After Desani's death in 2000, the novelist Amitav Ghosh had this to say about him, "The opaqueness of Hatterr is actually a reflection of the calculated evasiveness that Indians, Africans and other colonized people once had to employ when they attempted to make themselves heard in an idiom that barely acknowledged their right to its use". Desani served as the inspiration for a firmament of Indian writers writing in English, including Salmon Rushdie, Anita Desai, Rohinton Mistry, and others.

. In Essence All About H. Hatterr (1948) is a novel by G. V. Desani chronicling the adventures of an Anglo-Malay man in search of wisdom and enlightenment. "As far back as in 1951," Desani later wrote, "I said H. Hatterr was a portrait of a man, the common vulgar species, found everywhere, both in the East and in the West". Rare edition by Publisher

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