# The Masque of Africa

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- Book: [The Masque of Africa](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul/the-masque-of-africa) ([The Masque of Africa.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul/the-masque-of-africa.md))
- Authors: [V.S. Naipaul](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3506-173-0
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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