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India: A Wounded Civilization

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Description for India: A Wounded Civilization Paperback. A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330522717
SKU
V9780330522717
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99-50

About V. S. Naipaul
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. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma ... Read more

Reviews for India: A Wounded Civilization
It is a long and angry stare at the obvious; it is humbling . . . because it seems chasteningly right.
New Statesman
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
Brilliant.
Spectator
... Read more

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