Synopsis
A collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul. with an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.
V. S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned 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...
Details
01 June 2017800 pages
9781509832132Imprint: Picador
Reviews
His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himselfThe Times on An Area of Darkness
With this book he may well have written his own enduring monument, in prose at once stirring and intensely personal, distinguished both by style and critical acumenFinancial Times on A Million Mutinies Now
Brilliantly enjoyable . . . Everybody should read himSunday Telegraph on A Million Mutinies Now
It is a long and angry stare at the obvious; it is humbling . . . because it seems chasteningly right. - New StatesmanNew Statesman on A Wounded Civilization
