Sir Vidia''s Shadow is a book that chronicles bestselling author Paul Theroux''s long friendship with writer V.S Naipaul from its beginning to untimely end with both funny and moving moments and stark honesty.
''Both unputdownable and utterly engaging'' Jonathan Raban, The Times Literary Supplement
''I started reading Theroux Sir Vidia''s Shadow, the story of his friendship with V.S. Naipaul over thirty years and five continents. I couldn''t, as they say, put it down. I don''t know of a more revealing study of the peculiar nature of friendship between professional writers, an unstable compound of empathy, solidarity and rivalry'' David Lodge, Guardian Books of the Year
''Thoroughly compelling. We can call it a memoir, or a biographical sketch, but it has more in it - more candour, more intensity, more angry puzzlement - than we would normally expect from either of these genres'' Sunday Telegraph
''The portrait of Naipau
