A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation.

“Bracing, surprising.... A meditation on art and life.” —The New York Review of Books

V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process that has shaped both his writing and his life.

Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was ex...