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ISBN10: 1400030757, ISBN13: 9781400030750, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.Extraordinarily forceful. Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer. NewsweekIn 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhis Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of India. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indiansfrom a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombays homelessNaipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor. Returning to India--the subject of his acclaimed "An Area of Darkness"--in 1975, Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly ...
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ISBN10: 1400030757, ISBN13: 9781400030750, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover 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. He pursued no other profession.&#160His novels include A House for.
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ISBN10: 1400030757, ISBN13: 9781400030750, [publisher: Vintage] Softcover 176 pages.In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency , V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced t his concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portr ait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians-from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing h ousing for Bombay's homeless-Naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely vis ible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled te mple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionarie s who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Woun ded Civilizationis a work of astonishing insight and candor. Edi torial Reviews Review Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer. -Newsweek A deep plea sure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetratin g, intelligent. -The Washington Post Book World Typical Naipaul- brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hardbitten yet resigned in the emotional background. -The New ...

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