Tag: V.S. Naipaul
Buruma on Naipaul: ‘Alert, Never Sentimental’
by Jim Benning | 11.03.08 | 11:02 AM ET
Ian Buruma reviews The World Is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul in the New York Review of Books. “Naipaul’s literary discovery of the world is marked by the way he uses his eyes and ears,” Buruma writes. “Impatient with abstractions, he listens to people, not just their views, but the tone of their voices, the telling evasions, the precise choice of words. His eyes, meanwhile, register everything, the clothes, the gestures. ... These observations are filtered through a mind that is alert, never sentimental, and deeply suspicious of romantic cant.”
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Yahoo! BuzzWorld Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books
by World Hum | 06.25.06 | 7:00 PM ET
We recently counted down the best travel books of all time. Here's the entire list -- and loads of picks from World Hum readers.
No. 6: ‘North of South’ by Shiva Naipaul
by Frank Bures | 05.26.06 | 9:18 PM ET
To mark our five-year anniversary, we’re counting down the top 30 travel books of all time, adding a new title each day this month.
Published: 1978
Territory covered: Kenya and Tanzania
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