India: A Wounded Civilization

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1400030757 ISBN13: 9781400030750 Release Date: April 2003 Publisher: Vintage Length: 176 Pages Weight: 2.60 lbs. Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0" From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. "Extraordinarily forceful.... Naipaul is an elegantly precise and exacting writer." -NewsweekIn 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's "Emergency," V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of India. Drawing 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 agonized continent inaccessible to foreigne