The Enigma of Arrival

Naipaul, V S

| 1988

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The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. - "Naipaul's finest work." --Chicago Tribune "A subtly incisive self-reckoning." --The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey - of departure and arrival, alienation and familiarity, home and homelessness - the writer reveals how, cut off from his "first" life in Trinidad, he enters a "second childhood of seeing and learning." Clearly autobiographical, yet woven through with remarkable invention, The Enigma...

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