India: A million mutinies now - Hardcover

Naipaul, V. S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434510270 ISBN 13: 9780434510276

Publisher: Heinemann, 1990

Synopsis

In this book, V.S.Naipaul returns to the country which continues to intrigue and inspire him and about which he wrote "An Area of Darkness" in 1964, a semi-autobiographical account of a year spent in India. Now, twenty-five years later, he goes back to that country, returning to the places he visited years ago and talking to people of all types and at all levels of society. Naipaul started writing in 1954 he has won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the W.H.Smith Award and the Booker Prize, the latter with the novel "In a Free State" (1971). His most recently published novels are "Guerrillas" (1975) and "A Bend in the River" (1979). He is the author of two books about India, "An Area of Darkness" (1964) and "India: A Wounded Civilization" (1977); his other well-known works of non-fiction are "The Return of Eva Peron" with "The Killings in Trinidad" (1981); "Finding the Centre" (1984); and "A Turn in the South" (1989), which is about South America and was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1990.

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From the Inside Flap

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 before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India's manifold complexities.

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 has followed no other profession. He has published thirty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, A Turn in the South and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0434510270
• ISBN 13: 9780434510276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 521