{"product_id":"9781035061198","title":"India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul","description":"`A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts' - The TimesIn 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization.   In this work, he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian attitudes, while recapitulating and further probing the feelings aroused in him by this vast, mysterious, and agonized country. What he saw and heard - evoked so superbly and vividly in these pages - reinforced in him a conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, had not yet found an ideology of regeneration.   A work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man's complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors.   The second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, India: A Wounded Civilization follows An Area of Darkness. The series concludes with India: A Million Mutinies Now.   Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206085886325,"sku":"9781035061198","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781035061198_e9976363-d9de-42eb-b119-eb49ad1f3de8.jpg?v=1748093926","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781035061198","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}