V. S. Naipaul
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier, and produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful & informative!
- By Kindle Customer on 05-03-24
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-29-21
- Language: English
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story5 out of 5 stars 16
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago....
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5 out of 5 stars
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AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ
- By JK on 08-15-21
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 07-27-21
- Language: English
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An Area of Darkness
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Go slowly with this one, or it's a slog
- By John S. on 08-15-21
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An Area of Darkness
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 05-25-21
- Language: English
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 335
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Story4 out of 5 stars 284
Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- By Christopher on 01-04-19
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 07-10-17
- Language: English
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A Bend in the River
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 574
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Story4 out of 5 stars 388
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- By Lawrence on 01-15-05
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A Bend in the River
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-16-04
- Language: English
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A Writer's People
- Ways of Looking and Feeling
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4 out of 5 stars 12
Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul shares how his process of creative and intellectual assimilation across various cultures has shaped both his writing and his life....
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A Writer's People
- Ways of Looking and Feeling
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-04-08
- Language: English
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Magic Seeds
- By: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrated by: Aasif Mandvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 11
Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul, one of the world's most acclaimed authors, effortlessly tackles provocative ideas and always leaves his audience with something to think about....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read Half a Life first
- By Alison on 02-22-05
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Magic Seeds
- Narrated by: Aasif Mandvi
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-16-04
- Language: English
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