Naipaul
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naipaul and his father, seepersad, covering the period bewteen the time naipaul left his home in trinidad in to take up a government scholarship at oxford, and the death of seepersad in ; and includes a selection of letter that reflect naipaul's progress in the 3 years that followoxfam bookshop cheltenham presents the correspondence of author vsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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naipaul returned to india, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlierdrawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary indians: from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for bombay's homeless, naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonised continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own peoplein , at the height of indira gandhi's emergency, vrelentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, india: a wounded civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candourhe sees both the burgeoning space program and the volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the naxalite revolutionaries who combined maoist rhetoric with ritual murdersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreout of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatised by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past
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A celebration of regional creativity, the collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of west indian writing turning the pages, while reminding readers that the caribbean is a multilingual, multicultural spaceĀ stories by major figures in the english language tradition such as vthis collection of caribbean short stories featuresĀ both authors born in the 19th century and much younger writers of more recent generationsoxfam bookshop st albans the caribbean is the source of one of the richest, most accessible, and yet technically adventurous traditions of contemporary world literaturenaipaul, sam sevlon, and jean rhys are set alongside their spanish- and french-speakingĀ contemporaries like alejo carpentier, jan bosh, and gabriel garcia marquezit is alsoĀ pan-caribbean, including stories from the four main languages of the region: english, spanish, french, and dutchsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea clean unmarked copytheir work, in all its diversity of style, theme, and linguistic energy, provides a context for the work of an exciting new generation of caribbean writers like edwidge danticat, robert antoni, astrid roemer, and jamaica kincaid
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