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In a Free State

✍ Scribed by V. S. Naipaul

Book ID
111599709
Publisher
Vintage; Random House
Year
1971
Tongue
English
Weight
162 KB
Edition
Vintage International (2002)
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307789327

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✦ Synopsis

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 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' - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. 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.

Award- Booker Prize for Fiction ()

Award- Booker Prize for Fiction ()

Award- Booker Prize for Fiction ()

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