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  The Enigma of Arrival (Paperback) By (author) V. S. Naipaul

  

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  Short Description for The Enigma of ArrivalTaking its title from a picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, this is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad, who arrives in post-imperial England. He observes the gradual but profound changes wrought on the English countryside by the march of "progress".
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  • Publisher: PICADOR
  • Published: 06 September 2002
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780330487153 ISBN 10: 0330487159
  • Sales rank: 156,830

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• A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finds himself as a writer. As he does so, he also observes the gradual but profound and permanent changes wrought on the English landscape by the march of "progress", as an old world is lost to the relentless drift of people and things over the face of the earth. But while this is a novel of dignity, compassion and candour it is also, perhaps surprisingly, a work of celebration.