The Loss of El Dorado: A History - Softcover

Naipaul, V. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140036415 ISBN 13: 9780140036411

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

Synopsis

Focusing on the early 19th century, when British occupants inflicted a reign of terror on the island's black population, V.S. Naipaul's recreation of the history of Trinidad exposes the barbaric cruelties of slavery and torture and their consequences on all strata of society - from the idealist to the reactionary - in an account which penetrates aspects of a complex society.

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Review:

History as literature, meticulously researched and masterfully written. The New York Times Book Review A formidable achievement. . . . No historian has attempted to weave together in so subtle a manner the threads of the most complex and turbulent period of Caribbean history. The Times Literary Supplement Brilliant. . . . Startling. New Statesman A remarkable book. . . . Intelligent, humane, brilliantly written. Book World"

About the Author:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and since then he has followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140036415
• ISBN 13: 9780140036411
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400