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India: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction from Paul Theroux V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. His most recent visit was in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childhood have resulted in t ...Show more
Letters Between a Father and Son by V.S. Naipaul
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family - particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. The result is a fascinating chronic ...Show more
Literary Occasions : Essays by V.S. Naipaul (ed Pankaj Mishra)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; ...Show more
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V. S. Naipaul
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Category: New Hardbacks
From V. S. Naipaul: For my travel books I travel on a theme. And the theme of "The Masque of Africa" is African belief. I begin in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa. My theme is belief, not pol ...Show more