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India: a Wounded Civilization
India: a Wounded Civilization
paperback
Published:
6 September, 2002
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Description
In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization, in which he casts a more analytical eye over Indian attitudes. In this work, he recapitulates and further investigates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonised continent has previously aroused in him. What he sees and what he hears - evoked so superbly and vividly in this book - only reinforce in him his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration.
'A devastating work' The Times
'Brilliant' Spectator
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780330487603 |
| ISBN10 | 0330487604 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 140 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 16 x 194 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Picador |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main Market |
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'A devastating work' The Times; 'Brilliant' Spectator
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Author's Bio
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between A Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.