India by Vs Naipaul

India by Vs Naipaul

A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar. Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at the age of twenty-nine, hoping to settle the ghosts of a painful ancestral past. That journey was the first in what would become a decades-long project. An Area of Darkness chronicles the author’s initial visit as estrangement gives way to connections and conversations. Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, India: A Wounded Civilization presents an intellectual portrait of a country whose people are no longer so willing to speak or bear witness. India: A Million Mutinies Now captures a panorama of voices and stories fifteen years later, at another moment of national upheaval. Born of Naipaul’s wish to see for himself the homeland from which he was twice displaced, India emerges as an invaluable account of a nation in times of dramatic change: acutely observant, tender, at once brilliantly composed and vividly clear-sighted.

Indispensable for anyone who wants to seriously come to grips with the experience of India * New York Times Book Review *
Brilliant. . lyrical, explosive * Observer *
His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself -- The Times on An Area of Darkness
With this book he may well have written his own enduring monument, in prose at once stirring and intensely personal, distinguished both by style and critical acumen -- Financial Times on A Million Mutinies Now
Brilliantly enjoyable . . . Everybody should read him -- Sunday Telegraph on A Million Mutinies Now
It is a long and angry stare at the obvious; it is humbling . . . because it seems chasteningly right -- New Statesman on A Wounded Civilization
A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts -- The Times on A Wounded Civilization
Brilliant -- Spectator on A Wounded Civilization

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9781529031133
ISBN 10	1529031133
Titre	India
Auteur	Vs Naipaul
Série	Picador Classic
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Pan Macmillan
Année de publication	2020-07-09
Nombre de pages	1104
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