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"Most of Us Know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.". So observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum - that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp - which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction, the first in seven years by one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Returning to the autobiographical mode he so brilliantly explored in The Enigma of Arrival, and writing here in the classic form of linked narrations, Naipaul constructs a story of remarkable resonance and power, remembrance and invention. It is the story of a writer's lifelong journey towards an understanding of both the simple stuff of inheritance - language, character, family history - and the long interwoven strands of a deeply complicated historical past: "things barely remembered, things released only by the act of writing." What he writes - and what his release of memory enables us to see - is a series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Car

Who reads A Way in the World : a Novel?

Author

V S Naipaul; Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Publisher

New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679761662

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.4 / 5 (10 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14