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Vidiadhar Naipaul

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With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It …

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Por que a criação do Paquistão foi concebida como uma vitória da fé, e não como uma realização política? Como o petróleo e o equipamento militar criaram a ilusão de poder islâmico e alimentaram a revolução no Irã? Como contextualizar a Malásia e a Indonésia no mundo muçulmano? A reflexão sobre essas e outras questões …

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As decribed in one of the reviews: ...An expatriate English couple and a West-Indian would-be revolutionary are the three main characters, and the agonizing (and mostly self-destructive) sexual and philosophic choices they are faced with ring true to life. The compromises and rationalizations they make to themselves …

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In a Free State is a novel by V.S. Naipaul published in 1971. It won that year's Booker Prize. The plot consists of a framing narrative and three short stories, the last one also titled In a Free State. The work is symphonic, with different movements working towards an overriding theme. It is not too clearly spelled …

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India: A Wounded Civilization, by V. S. Naipaul, is the second book of his "India" trilogy, after An Area of Darkness, and before India: A Million Mutinies Now. Naipaul came to write this book on his third visit to India, prompted by the Emergency of 1975.