Naipaul, Shiva

New York. 1985. March 1985. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket.Remainder Marking. 0670803928. 424 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ann Winslow . keywords: Literature Caribbean Essays England India Trinidad. FROM THE PUBLISHER - From the highly praised Shiva Naipaul (‘A novelist of rare gifts and great authority,' Newsweek; ‘A masterful writer,' The New York Times Book Review; ‘A modern George Orwell,' the London Sunday Times) comes a brilliant collection of pieces-many never before published In America-bringing together autobiography, short fiction, and essays. In 1964, at the age of eighteen, Shiva Naipaul left Trinidad for England. Ahead lay Oxford and his beginnings as a writer. He describes that leavetaking In the opening piece of this book with the clarity and keenness of vision provided by his perspective of twenty years. Here too are stories filled with compassion, humor, and sadness, and a stunning array of essays in which the author remembers his early encounters with prejudice; explores the rise of the Rastaman and the charismatic personality of Sanjay -Gandhi-and-describes-Fez, Liverpool, Bombay, Puerto Rico, and the Seychelles, among other places, with startling insights and a novelist's sensibility. Written from 1969 to the present, BEYOND THE DRAGON'S MOUTH is both a telling chronicle of the development of a writer and an incisive account of Third World culture and politics. inventory #13229 ISBN: 0670803928.