Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Heinemann, 1990, London
ISBN: 0434510270

[Book #14637]

A most beautiful First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering;

Trinidadian journalist-novelist Naipaul's second book about his ancestral India. The 1962 trip produced his darkly pessimistic India: A Wounded Civilization. In this passionate portrait of a culture, a society, and a country, he returns to India, "a country of a million little mutinies,' ' as the old moral ethos rooted in caste and class is being shaken by new ideas of freedom. Dozens of first-person stories by Indians themselves