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A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction
First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and d ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction
The great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. An acknowledged masterpiece by one of the towering literary giants of our time. When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. Accompanied by Metty, the son of one of the family slav ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
With an introduction by author Teju Cole, A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction
A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels. A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independe ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul / V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSOne of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
In a Free State: A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. In a Free State tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London wh ...Show more
In a Free State : The Novel by V. S. Naipaul
Category: Fiction
In a Free State: The Novel is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is going sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make a long drive to the safet ...Show more