Seven Summers

Mulk Raj Anand · 1951 CE · Novel · Indian · Modernist

The first seven years of a coppersmith's son in the cantonment towns of the Punjab, kept inside the child's senses: a mother's kitchen, a regimental parade ground, a cousin's death, the first sight of what caste does to the people who serve you. Nothing is explained to him and he explains nothing. Opening volume of the autobiographical sequence Anand called Seven Ages of Man.

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