๐”– Bobbio Scriptorium
โœฆ   LIBER   โœฆ
Cover of In a free state

In a free state

โœ Scribed by V. S. Naipaul

Book ID
106934318
Publisher
Macmillan
Year
2001
Tongue
UND
Weight
141 KB
Series
Booker Winners 1971
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780330487054

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

โœฆ Synopsis

SUMMARY: "In a Free State" deals in displacement. It tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, then of an Asian West Indian in London who is in jail for murder. Then the story moves to Africa, to a fictional country something like Uganda or Rwanda. The two main characters are English. They once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. At a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. In the background, the threat of violence looms.The voices in this novel are breathtakingly vivid, while the characters are portrayed with an intelligence and sensitivity that is rarely seen in contemporary writing. Dennis Potter described the book as one 'of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience'. This is one of V.S. Naipaul's greatest novels, hard but full of pity.

๐Ÿ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES

cover
In a Free State
โœ Naipaul, V S ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ๐ŸŒ en-US โš– 282 KB

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, acco

cover
In a Free State
โœ Naipaul, V S ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ๐ŸŒ English โš– 282 KB

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, acco

cover
In a Free State
โœ V. S. Naipaul ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 1971 ๐Ÿ› Vintage; Random House ๐ŸŒ English โš– 162 KB

May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content). Genre: Literature ebook, 187 pages Paperback, 247 pages Published: 1971 Edition: Vintage International (2002) Booker Prize for Fiction (1971) No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more a

cover
In a Free State
โœ Naipaul, V S ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ๐ŸŒ en-US โš– 369 KB

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, acco

cover
In a Free State
โœ V. S. Naipaul ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2011 ๐Ÿ› Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ๐ŸŒ English โš– 342 KB

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, acco

cover
In a free state
โœ V. S. Naipaul ๐Ÿ“‚ Fiction ๐Ÿ“… 2001 ๐Ÿ› Macmillan ๐ŸŒ UND โš– 141 KB

SUMMARY: "In a Free State" deals in displacement. It tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, then of an Asian West Indian in London who is in jail for murder. Then the story moves to Africa, to a fictional country something like Uganda or Rwanda. The two main characters are English. They onc