Questa trilogia si addentra nell'intricato mondo dell'India postcoloniale attraverso la lente di un premio Nobel. Esplora le identità culturali, le eredità storiche e i viaggi personali in una terra di contraddizioni. I lettori troveranno profonde intuizioni e un ricco arazzo dell'esperienza umana.
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.
The author wrote this book after his third visit to India, prompted by the Emergency of 1975. It contains his perspective on poverty and social conditions, religions, and the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.
V.S. Naipaul's classic account of his journey around India.