The story of a writer's singular 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—this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work.
The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.
Taking its title from a work 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 ...
V.S. Naipaul's first novel since the acclaimed Bend in the River; a novel that is both about his adopted country, England, and about the development of a writer's eye and...
The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel