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Collected Short Fiction

✍ Scribed by Naipaul, V S

Book ID: 109191882
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2011
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 389 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780307595614

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✦ Synopsis

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner'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 Award--winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad'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 Prize-- 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...

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