In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us
an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the
sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual
assimilation.
Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his
entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V. S.
Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one
civilisation to another." In A Writer's People, he discusses the
writers to whom he was exposed early on, Derek Walcott, Flaubert
and his own father among them; how Anthony Powell and Francis
Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture; what
we have retained-and forgotten-of the world portrayed in Caesar's
The Gallic War and Virgil's Aeneid; how the writings of Gandhi,
Nehru and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors
and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his
own life: his years in Trinidad; the gaps in his family history;
the "private India" kept alive through story, ritual, religion and
culture; his ever-evolving reaction to the more complicated and
demanding true India he would encounter for the first time when he
was thirty.
Part meditation, part remembrance, as elegant as it is revelatory,
A Writer's People allows us privileged insight-full of incident,
humour and feeling-into the mind of one of our greatest writers.
"He brings to non-fiction an extraordinary capacity for making art
out of lucid thought. . . . I can no longer imagine the world
without Naipaul's writing."" Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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