# The Masque of Africa

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- Authors: [V.S. Naipaul](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Genres: Philosophy

## Description

Naipaul travels, he asks, he listens attentively and, above all else, he notices, often seeing what others do not or cannot. That acute gift has never left him . . . he is sustained by the old ideal of unadorned truth-telling

## Editions

### The Masque of Africa

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3506-173-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Language: en_GB

### The Masque of Africa

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-0745-499-7
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2011-10-04
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [A máscara da África](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul/pt/a-mascara-da-africa) (pt_BR)