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The Middle Passage

- Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback

The Middle Passage

- Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback
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V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace.

In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up – a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer.

‘Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.’ Evelyn Waugh

‘Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain’ New Statesman

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V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace.

In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and the Caribbean societies of four adjacent countries, Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica. Haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empire that it can scarcely comprehend its end, Naipaul catches this poor, topsy-turvy world at a critical moment, a time when racial and political assertion had yet to catch up – a perfect subject for the acute understanding and dazzling prose of this great writer.

‘Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.’ Evelyn Waugh

‘Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain’ New Statesman

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780330522953
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0330522957
Kategori: Trinidad & Tobago
Udg. Dato: 17 jun 2011
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 179mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 17 jun 2011
Forfatter(e): V.S. Naipaul
Forfatter(e) V.S. Naipaul


Kategori Trinidad & Tobago


ISBN-13 9780330522953


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 17mm


Bredde 140mm


Højde 179mm


Udg. Dato 17 jun 2011


Oplagsdato 17 jun 2011


Forlag Pan Macmillan

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