by V. S. Naipaul · Penguin Books Canada, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140098860
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«The Enigma of Arrival» is the novel by V. S. Naipaul, published by Penguin Books Canada, Limited in paperback (320 pages, in English).
It recounts a writer's journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the English countryside, a displacement that is also an inner transition between two states of mind. Autobiographical in nature, it combines invention and reality to explore exile, identity, and a sense of belonging.
The work is structured in five sections: «Jack's Garden», «The Journey», «Ivy», «Rooks», and «The Ceremony of Farewell».
A read for those who appreciate meditative prose and a slow pace, with attention to introspection and landscape.
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.
