The Middle Passage
17 June 2011
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace.
In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he created...
Details
17 June 2011
272 pages
9780330522953
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.Evelyn Waugh
Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.New Statesman
Where earlier travellers enthused or recoiled, Mr Naipaul explains. His tone is critical but humane, and he tempers his inevitable indignation with an admirable sense of comedy.Observer
Dazzling reportorial skills and a sharp historical mind.New York Times Book Review