by V. S. Naipaul · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780394711959
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«Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey» is the travelogue by writer V. S. Naipaul, published by Vintage in paperback (448 pages, in English).
On a journey through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia, Naipaul talks with people from very different walks of life to portray societies in the midst of Islamization: everyday life, the weight of faith and its relationship with modernity and Western materialism.
Naipaul received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. The work was originally published in 1981 and this edition is a reissue.
For readers interested in the history of Islam, travel writing and political and cultural analysis from the perspective of a Nobel laureate.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
