Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. August 17, 1932
Birthday: August 17
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
source: V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Turn in the South”, p.53, Pan Macmillan
topic: Law, Ideas, Honor, Family Feud