Shadowy Nation: An Indian Journey Where Memory and Reality Intersect (New Edition)

Author: (British) V.S. Naipaul, translated by Li Yongping
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Features: In 1962, Naipaul first visited India – the homeland of his ancestors. From Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, to the hometown of his maternal grandfather, this "outsider" and "passenger" with a warm identity witnessed the pervasive poverty and ugliness, feeling shock, anger, alienation, contempt, and despair. Amidst his usual sarcastic and aloof wit, the chaos of post-colonial India is portrayed as utterly helpless and hopeless. The India journey of that year was also an inner journey for him to explore his own history and identity, but his takeaway was seeing India as belonging to the night – a dead world, a long journey. Naipaul wrote this book as if it were a painting by an artist. It can be said that no matter what literary form he uses, he is a master!