{"product_id":"india-a-wounded-civilization-by-vs-naipaul-9781035061198","title":"India: A Wounded Civilization","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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\"\u003c\/em\u003e - The Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1964, V. S. Naipaul published \u003cem\u003eAn Area of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write \u003cem\u003eIndia: A Wounded Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 agonised 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA work of fierce candour and precision, it is also a generous description of one man's complicated relationship with the country of his ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe second book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, \u003cem\u003eIndia: A Wounded Civilization\u003c\/em\u003e follows \u003cem\u003eAn Area of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e. The series concludes with \u003cem\u003eIndia: A Million Mutinies Now\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671137767660,"sku":"9781035061198","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035061198.jpg?v=1752812058","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/india-a-wounded-civilization-by-vs-naipaul-9781035061198","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}