The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

ISBN-13: 9780330472043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str.

V.S. Naipaul

Opis

The theme of this book is African belief. Naipaul's journey takes in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa.

O autorze

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.