| Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul Contributor(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Author), Naipaul, V. S. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307594025 ISBN-13: 9780307594020 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011276690 |
| Series: Everyman's Library |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 5.04" W x 8.24" (1.18 lbs) 440 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award-winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize- winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. |