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"Brilliant. ... A powerfully observed, stylistically elegant exploration."--The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "The book's strength lies in Naipaul's extraordinary ability as a storyteller to draw striking portraits of a cross section of individuals."--The Boston Globe Fourteen years after the publication of his landmark travel narrative Among the Believers, V.S. Naipaul returned to the four non-Arab Islamic countries he reported on so vividly at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's triumph in Iran. Beyond Belief is the result of his five-month journey in 1995 through Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia--lands where descendants of Muslim converts live at odds with indigenous traditions, and where dreams of Islamic purity clash with economic and political realities. In extended conversations with a vast number of people--a rare survivor of the martyr brigades of the Iran-Iraq war, a young intellectual training as a Marxist guerilla in Baluchistan, an impoverished elderly couple in Teheran whose dusty Baccarat chandeliers preserve the memory of vanished wealth, and countless others--V.S. Naipaul deliberately effaces himself to let the voices of his subjects

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Author

Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad; Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad

Publisher

Vintage Books;Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299035362

Category

travel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion