Tato trilogie se noří do složitého světa postkoloniální Indie prostřednictvím očí nositele Nobelovy ceny. Zkoumá kulturní identity, historické dopady a osobní cesty v zemi protikladů. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na pronikavé postřehy a bohatou tapisérii lidských zkušeností.
In this work of autobiographical travel writing in India, the author desribes his encounter with a force in his life which shocked him into an awareness of a need for self-examination and self-explanation. V.S. Naipul has also written 13 works of fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age
V.S. Naipaul s fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on t