Among the Believers An Islamic Journey [Paperback]

Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
 
His novels includeA House for Mr Biswas,The Mimic Men,Guerrillas,A Bend in the River, andThe Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize forIn a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, includeAmong the Believers,Beyond Belief,The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India:An Area of Darkness,India: A Wounded CivilizationandIndia: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.US