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| #623028 in Books | 2003-04-08 | 2003-04-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.50 x5.20l,.39 | File type: PDF | 176 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Old but somewhat useful essays|By Steve Harrison|The description fails to make clear that this is a collection of essays, arranged by subject matter. Most were published originally in the New York Review of Books. Read together they result in a book choppy, turgid, and a bit repetitive in its concerns. Read individually, as originally intended, they are fine. So if you buy the||“Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer.” –Newsweek||“A deep pleasure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetrating, intelligent.” –The Washington Post B
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 earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians...
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