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The Enigma of Arrival

By: V. S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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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 - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

©2018 V. S. Naipaul (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Biography
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This is a slow-paced book and at times you wonder what it’s about, but I found myself missing it when it finished and looking back to it often. It stays with you. Not an exhilarating read, a pensive one and takes you back in time.

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what I expected to be an interesting and contemplative book lost almost all of its power through utterly tedious repetition in style and story

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