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India: A Wounded Civilization

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Availability:In StockContributor:V. S. NaipaulPublish date:2003-04-08Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030750ISBN-10:1400030757UPC:9781400030750Book Category:History, Travel, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Human GeographyBook Topic:South, India & South AsiaSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCGW07Z8RX
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." -Newsweek

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's "Emergency," V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030750ISBN-10:1400030757UPC:9781400030750Book Category:History, Travel, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Human GeographyBook Topic:South, India & South AsiaSize:8.00 x 5.28 x 0.48 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCGW07Z8RX
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 of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works...
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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