The Cooking Of Books : A Literary Memoir
Author: Rupa Publications Editorial Team
ISBN: 9789353457099
Price: Rs. 599.00 • ✓ 100% Genuine Publisher Edition
Book Overview
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship that survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship that developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir.It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, when Guha was an unpublished PhD scholar, and Advani a greenhorn editor with the Oxford University Press. It blossomed through the 1990s,when Guha grew into a pioneering historian of the environment and of cricket, while also writing his pathbreaking biography of Verrier Elwin. Over these years, Advani was Guha most constant confidant, his most reliable reader. He encouraged him to craft and refine the literary style for which Guha became internationally known narrative histories that have made vast areas of scholarship popular and accessible.
Browse this title within our Non Fiction Books collection. Edition details: English, 288 pages. Reference ISBN: 9789353457099.
About the Author
Rupa Publications Editorial Team is a celebrated author whose published works are acclaimed internationally for their insight, narrative craftsmanship, and immense reader popularity.
Book Specifications & Quick Facts
- Reading Level
- General Fiction Readers (All Ages)
- Language & Format
- English • Paperback
- ISBN Reference
- 9789353457099
- Publisher
- Pearson Education India / Rupa
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What is this book about?
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship that survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship that developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent...
Who should read this book?
Essential reading for students, entrepreneurs, and curious minds seeking practical life insights, productivity principles, and deeper intellectual perspectives.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book for its rare peek behind the scenes of how great books are shaped. Through wit, warmth, and sharp intellectual debate, you witness a forty-year friendship between a formidable historian and his quietly brilliant editor. It’s a memoir about trust, disagreement, and craft—how ideas are sharpened, sentences refined, and confidence built. If you enjoy literary lives, publishing stories, or thoughtful Indian nonfiction, this is both deeply human and quietly inspiring.
- Published by Pearson Education India / Rupa.
- Language: English.
- Page count: 288.
Catalog Description
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship that survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship that developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir.It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, when Guha was an unpublished PhD scholar, and Advani a greenhorn editor with the Oxford University Press. It blossomed through the 1990s,when Guha grew into a pioneering historian of the environment and of cricket, while also writing his pathbreaking...
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