Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife” [117]-- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital [111]. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. [111-12, 120, 130-1, 150, 178, 220-40] And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing,In A Free State is Naipaul at his best.

In a Free State

A former hero of the South African resistance and his English mistress arrrive on a troubled Caribbean island, where their involvement with a young mulatto revolutionary leader leads to violence

Guerrillas

Bogart the bigamist, B. Wordsworth the poet, and Morgan the pyrotechnist are among the poor inhabitants of Miguel Street seen through the eyes of a fatherless boy growing up in Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War II. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Miguel Street

The son of a man who, inspired by Ghandi, married below his caste, travels to New York where he struggles to find his identity and forge a career as a writer. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

A Novel

Half a Life

In recounting the events of his journey through India, the Nobel Prize-winning author presents a kaleidoscopic view of the institutions, people, and problems of this turbulent nation, his ancestral homeland. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

An Area of Darkness

A look at India explores the ways different individuals have been affected by the numerous frictions present in Indian society, the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, and more. Reprint. NYT.

A Million Mutinies Now

India

رواية

بيت السيد بيسواس

Explores the revolutionary character of the Islamic faith and discusses what really is happening in those countries in which Islamic fundamentalism is prevalent, as seen through the eyes of the people caught up in the turmoil

Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

Beyond Belief

Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair

A House for Mr. Biswas

The Suffrage of Elvira

V. S. Naipaul

In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University. Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family – particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings. The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul’s time at university; the love of writing that he shared with his father and their mutual nurturing of literary ambition; the triumphs and depressions of Oxford life; and the travails of his family back at home. This engrossing collection has been updated with new material. Spanning the early years of V. S. Naipaul's burgeoning literary career, these letters touch time and again on the craft of writing, and reveal the relationships and experiences that formed and influenced one of the greatest and most enigmatic literary figures of our age. ‘Extraordinary and moving . . . this book is both heartening and terribly sad’ Alain de Botton, Sunday Telegraph ‘Rare and precious . . . if any modern writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition, it was always likely to be V. S. Naipaul’ Robert Winder, New Statesman 'A fascinating psychological narrative' Jason Cowley, The Times

Letters Between a Father and Son

The Return of Eva Perón, with The Killings in Trinidad

The son of a man who, inspired by Ghandi, married below his caste, travels to New York where he struggles to find his identity and forge a career as a writer. 40,000 first printing.

The Indian Trilogy

Mr Stone and the Knights Companion

The Two Personal Narrative Pieces That Make Up Finding The Centre` Are Both About The Process Of Writing. Both Seek In Different Ways To Admit The Reader To That Process: Both Pieces Touch The Heart As Often As They Engage The Mind. Condition Good.

Two Narratives

Finding the Centre

A fictional history of colonialism presents stories whose protagonists range from the disgraced Sir Walter Raleigh to the foppish nineteenth-century revolutionary Francisco Miranda. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

A Way in the World

An omnibus edition featuring three classic comic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author features The Suffrage of Elvira, about an eventful political campaign in rural Trinidad; Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion, and A Flag on the Island, an entertaining anthology of short fiction. Original. 12,500 first printing.

And Other Comic Inventions

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book

Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.

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