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Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.

Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned, and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph's constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India's many "Mimic Men".

La historia del viaje vital de un escritor hacia la comprensión, por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul. Un camino en el mundo es la historia del viaje vital de un escritor hacia la comprensión, tanto de los sencillos materiales de la herencia -la lengua, el carácter, la historia familiar- como de las largas y entretejidas hebras de un pasado histórico profundamente complejo: «Cosas apenas recordadas, cosas que solo se liberan mediante el acto de escribir.».

Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh, who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa.