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Title: India
Author: NAIPAUL V S
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 14/07/2020
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of <i>The Great Railway Bazaar</i>.
V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childhood have resulted in three books: <i>India: An Area of Darkness</i>, <i>A Wounded Civilization </i>and <i>A Million Mutinies Now</i>. <i>India</i> is the collection of all three, introduced by fellow traveller and writer Paul Theroux.
<i>An Area of Darkness</i> is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. India was land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled. What emerged was a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone.
<i>India: A Wounded Civilization</i> casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. A work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man’s complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors.
<i>India: A Million Mutinies Now</i> is the fascinating account of Naipaul's return journey to India and offers a kaleidoscopic, layered travelogue, encompassing a wide collage of religions, castes, and classes at a time when the percolating ideas of freedom threatened to shake loose the old ways. The brilliance of the book lies in Naipaul’s approach to a shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. <i>India: A Million Mutinies Now</i> is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India.
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781529031133
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 1104