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India: A Wounded Civilization Book

A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our ageRead More

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  • TheBookPeople

    This is the second book in V.S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian Trilogy. 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 this work he 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. What he saw and heard - evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages - reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. 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. '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. 'It is a long and angry stare at the obvious; it is humbling ...because it seems chasteningly right' - New Statesman. 'Brilliant' - Spectator.

  • Foyles

    The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy.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 this work he 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. What he saw and heard – evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages – reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration.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.‘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

  • 033052271X
  • 9780330522717
  • V. S. Naipaul
  • 3 September 2010
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 200
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