Beyond Belief
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
$39.69
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2011
Summary
A fascinating follow-up to Among the Believers by one of our most brilliant writers. This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal measure.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330517874 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330517872 |
| Author: | V.S. Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Sceptical, enquiring, sharply observant and unfailingly stylish.
Sceptical, enquiring, sharply observant and unfailingly stylish. * Guardian *
Peerless … the human encounters are described minutely, superbly, picking up inconsistencies in people’s tales, catching the uncertainties and the nuances … there is a candour to his writing, a constant precision at its heart. * Sunday Times *
V.S. Naipaul
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 letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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