Among the Believers - Naipaul, Vidiadhar S.
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Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass . . . He is inimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' Observer…mehr

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Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass . . . He is inimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' Observer
Autorenporträt
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, geb. 17.8.1932 in Trinidad, lebt seit 1950 in Großbritannien. Der Romancier, Reiseschriftsteller und Journalist indischer Herkunft gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der englischsprachigen Literatur. Seine Romane 'Ein Haus für Mr. Biswas' und 'An der Biegung des großen Flusses' sowie das Sachbuch 'Eine islamische Reise' waren Welterfolge. Die meisten seiner Werke wurden ins Deutsche übersetzt. 2001 wurde V. S. Naipaul der Literatur-Nobelpreis verliehen.