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by V. S. Naipaul
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Availability:In StockContributor:V. S. NaipaulSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2001-08-14Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375707179ISBN-10:375707174UPC:9780375707179Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Political, HistoricalSize:8.02 x 5.22 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC1M6W091H
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world.

"No one else ... seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile." --The New York Review of Books

Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375707179ISBN-10:375707174UPC:9780375707179Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Political, HistoricalSize:8.02 x 5.22 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.5115Product ID:SC1M6W091H
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
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