by V. S. Naipaul · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330487184
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«A Turn in the South» is the travel book by V. S. Naipaul, published by Picador in paperback (200 pages, in English).
V. S. Naipaul travels through the American South in the late 1980s and turns his encounters with politicians, farmers, writers and ordinary people, black and white, into a reflection on race, culture and Southern identity. A personal view that combines landscape, dialogue and a portrait of a society in transformation.
The work was originally published in 1989; the Picador edition came out in 2003.
For readers interested in travel literature, the history and society of the American South.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
