Book cover for The Masque of Africa

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17 June 2011
336 pages
9780330472043
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

Compelling, insightful, often somberly beautiful.
Naipaul travels, he asks, he listens attentively and, above all else, he notices, often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him . . . he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-telling.
The quality of Naipaul’s writing – simple, concise, engaging – rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness reporting at its best.