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Collected Short Fiction

✍ Scribed by V. S. Naipaul

Book ID
107106637
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Tongue
English
Weight
389 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307594020

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✦ Synopsis

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winnerΠ²Π‚β„’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.

Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham AwardΠ²Π‚β€œwinning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of TrinidadΠ²Π‚β„’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker PrizeΠ²Π‚β€œ winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.

No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.

Review

Π²Π‚ΡšV. S. Naipaul is the worldΠ²Π‚β„’s writer, a master of language and perception.Π²Π‚Ρœ —The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He has published more than twenty- five books of fiction and nonfiction and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

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