Deze trilogie duikt in de complexe wereld van postkoloniaal India door de lens van een Nobelprijswinnaar. Het verkent culturele identiteiten, historische nalatenschappen en persoonlijke reizen in een land vol tegenstrijdigheden. Lezers zullen diepgaande inzichten en een rijk palet aan menselijke ervaringen aantreffen.
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.