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In a Free State
A short novel on two English people and their search for freedom in a complex African nation accompanies two works of fiction which illustrate the consequences of liberation
Literary Occasions: Essays
Eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity--which have been brought together for the first time--from the Nobel Prize-winning author. - "He brings to nonfiction] an …
India: A Wounded Civilization
A series of personal encounters throughout Indira Gandhi's India clearly reveals the overwhelming problems and agonies of the nation torn by overpopulation, poverty, and dissent. …
The Mystic Masseur
The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving …
Magic Seeds
The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life."The …
The Writer and the World: Essays
Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by the Nobel Prize-winning author. "The …
Reading And Writing
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between …
Cultural Identity and Creolization in National Unity
In the grand design of slavery in the Caribbean, White planters separated African slaves of similar tribal and linguistic groups in an effort to destroy African cultural …
India: A Million Mutinies Now
The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland. - "An intricate, splendid, and utterly memorable …
Una casa para el senor Biswas
The Enigma of Arrival
The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities …
A Way in the World
The Nobel Prize-winning author--and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times)--spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a …