The Enigma of Arrival

There is a green hill not far away

I don't re-read books very often, but I'm re-reading 'The Enigma of Arrival' by V S Naipaul. There is a mysterious incantatory quality to it. He is writing ostensibly about a place in Wiltshire, never drawing a crude lesson but somehow making universal sense.  This book and his 'Among the Believers' explains why he is a Nobel laureate and other descriptive writers aren't. Gold to Naipaul in the rural rides event of the cultural Olympics