{"product_id":"india-a-wounded-civilization-v-s-naipaul-9781035061198","title":"India: A Wounded Civilization","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.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50299496464672,"sku":"9781035061198","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781035061198.jpg?v=1781303388","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/india-a-wounded-civilization-v-s-naipaul-9781035061198","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}