India : A Wounded Civilization

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ISBN 10: 039440291X ISBN 13: 9780394402918

Publisher: Knopf

In 1964 the author Naipaul wrote "An Area of Darkness", his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later he came to write "India: A Wounded Civilization" in which he recapitulates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonized continent aroused in him.

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Review:

" Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer." - "Newsweek
"" A deep pleasure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetrating, intelligent." - "The Washington Post Book World
"" Typical Naipaul- brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hardbitten yet resigned in the emotional background." - "The New York Times Book Review
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"Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer." -"Newsweek

""A deep pleasure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetrating, intelligent." -"The Washington Post Book World

""Typical Naipaul-brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hardbitten yet resigned in the emotional background." -"The New York Times Book Review
"

Extraordinarily forceful. . . . Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer. Newsweek
A deep pleasure to read. . . . Adventurous, inquiring, observant, penetrating, intelligent. The Washington Post Book World
Typical Naipaul brilliantly lucid, terse, with something hardbitten yet resigned in the emotional background. The New York Times Book Review
"

Book Description:

A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age

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