Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples - Hardcover

V.S. Naipaul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316647012 ISBN 13: 9780316647014

Publisher: Random House, 1998

Synopsis

Revisiting Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia - the countries he visited for Among the Believers (1981), Naipaul reviews his impressions of the Islamic world. He explores the life and culture, and the current ferment which exists inside the nations of Islam.

About this title

About the Author:

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 he has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River and A Turn in the South, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Review:

"For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. He is the world's writer, a master of language and perception."
— The New York Times Book Review

"The distinctive human voices he captures and the sense he creates of obscure but unforgettable individuals struggling with incomprehensible forces make Beyond Belief...a compelling book."
— The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316647012
• ISBN 13: 9780316647014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448