North of South - Hardcover

Shiva Naipaul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671247425 ISBN 13: 9780671247423

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1979

Synopsis

Shiva Naipaul (25 February 1945 - 13 August 1985), born Shivadhar Srivinasa Naipaul in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, was a Trinidadian and British novelist and journalist. Shiva Naipaul was the younger brother of novelist V. S. Naipaul. He went first to Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad, then emigrated to Britain, having won a scholarship to study Chinese at University College, Oxford. Both his fiction and nonfiction were characterized by a starkly pessimistic view of Commonwealth societies that attacked the post-imperial native hierarchies for their crassness and mimicry of the West, and in turn the banality and diffidence of Western liberalism. On the morning of 13 August 1985, at the age of 40, Naipaul had a fatal heart attack while working at his desk. "North of South: An African Journey" concerns Naipaul's travels in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Naipaul was particularly interested in the Asian populations of these countries. The "South" in the title refers to South Africa. The book was widely hailed on its original publication by writers such as Graham Greene

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About the Author:

Shiva Naipaul was born in 1945 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was educated at Queen's Royal College and St Mary's College in Trinidad and at University College, Oxford. He married in 1967 and had one son. His books include Fireflies (1970), which won the Jock Campbell New Statesman Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Winifred Holtby Prize; North of South (1978), the story of his remarkable journey through Africa; Black and White (1980); A Hot Country (1983); and Beyond the Dragon's Mouth: Stories and Pieces (1984).

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0671247425
• ISBN 13: 9780671247423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 349