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Among the Believers - V.S. Naipaul

Among the Believers

An Islamist Journey

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Buch | Softcover
512 Seiten
2003
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-41333-6 (ISBN)
CHF 13,95 inkl. MwSt
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An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism
"Among the Believers" is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass...He is inimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' - "Observer".

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.9.2003
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 197 mm
Gewicht 407 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Naher Osten
Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-330-41333-3 / 0330413333
ISBN-13 978-0-330-41333-6 / 9780330413336
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