★ notes on Naipauls ten years of seclusion; Modern Walden

★ the mystery of arrival is like Walden. Every word is as clear as the air and can be touched at the same time.——Goodreads

★ the world is moving rapidly, everything is being demolished and rebuilt, and every life is exhausted. Where are you going to find your own spiritual home?

★ Naipaul series27The final work of this; It is praised as an impeccable book of Naipaul by the media and a very readable work of Naipaul by readers

★ if you are afraid of the other works of this literary master, the mystery of arrival will make you deeply fall in love with him.

Naipaul shows his loneliness, fragility and anxiety in his life, as well as his keen and delicate feelings, which is not only the qualification he has as a writer, but also the burden he bears as a person.-Publisher weekly

Like Walden, every word is as clear as the air and can be touched at the same time.——Goodreads

Naipaul shows his loneliness, fragility and anxiety in his life, as well as his keen and delicate feelings, which is not only the qualification he has as a writer, but also the burden he bears as a person.-Publisher weekly

Naipaul did not belittle life, but made life noble.-The observer

In his masterpiece the mystery of arrival, Naipauls visit to real life in Britain is like an anthropologist studying a hitherto unexplored indigenous tribe deep in the jungle.-Nobel Prize speech.

V.S.Naipaul（V.S.Naipaul）: famous British writer.1932Born in a family of Indian immigrants on the island of Trinidad,50In the s, he entered Oxford University to study English literature and began to publish literary works after graduation. He is the author of Miguel street, Mr. bisworths house, the great bend of the river, the free country, the guerrillas, the African masquerade and"India Trilogy”“American Trilogy"Etc.2001In, he won the Nobel Prize for literature.

This is Naipauls autobiographical novel. Far from the hustle and bustle, he lived in a country manor in England. Recalling these quiet and simple years, he wrote down the neglected or forgotten people and things in ordinary life. He wrote about death and departure, the changing seasons, circling crows and cows against the blue sky. Sad and elegant narration and profound feelings and thoughts are integrated together, with infinite meaning. If you are afraid of the other works of this literary master, the mystery of arrival will make you deeply fall in love with him.

"I feel that time is changing. When I first came here, the time was lengthened as in childhood. Spring contains too many clear things: moss roses, lonely blue iris and Peony under my window. I look forward to the change of seasons and the arrival of a new year. Then memories began to mix, time began to fly, and years began to overlap, making it difficult for me to distinguish the time in my memories. I see the world flowing, and human life is a series of cycles intertwined occasionally."

With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff.

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 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.

Finding depth and pathos in the smallest moments Naipaul also comprehends the bigger picture – watching as the old world is lost to the gradual but permanent changes wrought on the English landscape. It is a moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion, and candour.

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Pocket version andBritish paperbackandA4Comparison chart of standard paper size

Pocket version andAmerican paperbackandA4Comparison chart of standard paper size

British paperback and American paperbackA4Comparison chart of standard paper size