The Enigma of Arrival
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Product details:
- Edition number Main Market Ed.
- Publisher Picador
- Date of Publication 6 November 2025
- Number of Volumes B-format paperback
- ISBN 9781035061754
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 197x130 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
A moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.
MoreLong description:
A beautifully rendered work of autofiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another, and is perhaps V.S. Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet alongside this he weaves a rich and complex web of invention and observation.
Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments – the death of a cottager, the firing of an estate’s gardener – Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture – watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of ‘progress’.
‘Written with the expected beauty of style . . . Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it’ – Anthony Burgess, The Observer
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Written with the expected beauty of style . . . Instead of diminishing life, Naipaul ennobles it More
