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Among the Believers: An Islamist Journey
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Product Description
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
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #807109 in Books
- Published on: 2001-12-07
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
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'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
About the Author
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of 13 works of fiction, including A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and The Mystic Masseur, and 10 of non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization. He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His new novel, Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
Customer Reviews
As relevant today as it was then
Having travelled over the last decade to most of the countries mentioned in this book, I can say that the key advantage of it is that it remains highly relevant and applicable today. Thoroughly recommendable to anyone wanting an insight to the places visited by the author, easy to read at a stretch, wry in parts and unafraid to present things as they actually are. Realistic and sharp as you like, that's why it's a problem for some. Like someone in the book says, it doesn't serve their cause.
