The Enigma of Arrival

The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. * "Naipaul's finest work." -Chicago Tribune

"A subtly incisive self-reckoning." -The Washington Post Book World

The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of T...