Among the Believers (Picador Collection #135)

Reissued in the Picador Collection, 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.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

About the Author

V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was born in Trinidad. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Beyond Belief and The Masque of Africa. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. 

Reviews

"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

"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, author of Time's Arrow

"[Among the Believers] displays all of Naipaul's major themes [and] his great talent as a writer" —Fouad Ajami, New York Times

Dimensions: 13 x 2.62 x 19.71 cm