In a Free State
A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives
$30.43
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2011
Summary
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1971 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE
From Pulitzer Prize winner V.S. Naipaul, In A Free State is set in an imaginary state in Africa against a background of civil conflict. The book travels from America to London to Africa. The first third focuses on the fortunes of Santosh, a young Indian servant, at the mercy of his dreams, of his employers and of the countries in which he is plunged. It then moves into the world of expats in Africa, o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330524803 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0330524801 |
| Author: | V.S. Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2011 |
| Weight: | 177g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
A book 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
A book 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 – Dennis Potter * The Times *
Naipaul’s travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century – Martin Amis
V.S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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