Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey [Lingua Inglese]: An Islamist Journey - Brossura

S. Naipaul, V.

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ISBN 10: 0330413333 ISBN 13: 9780330413336

Casa editrice: Picador, 2003

Riassunto

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

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Descrizione del libro:

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism

L'autore:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330413333
• ISBN 13: 9780330413336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512