It's grown in the last six or seven years, yes. I wonder why. It's a great miracle. I think what happened is that I lost my obsession with Trinidad and with India. From about 1962 I became extraregional.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete.
For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well. Although the two pieces in your book can stand separately, there are strong links between them. There are emotional links. The theme of sacrifice comes out in both pieces. In France the book is called ''Sacrifice.'' As I say in the French edition, not only ritual sacrifice, not only the cultural ambushes of the past, but also the theme of personal sacrifice, the writer's life, my father's life.