内容简介
"Among the Believers" is V.S. Naipaul's
classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia,
and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those
journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original
purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic
world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam and the
comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'This book
investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the
fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other
Muslim countries ...He is a modern master' - "Sunday Times".
'Beautifully written and almost impossible to put down' - Auberon
Waugh. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both
effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly
contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass ...He is
inimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' - Robert
McCrum, "Observer". 'His level of perception is of the highest, and
his prose has become the perfect instrument for realizing those
perceptions on the page. His travel writing is perhaps the most
important body of work of its kind in the second half of the
century' - Martin Amis.