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The central novel from V.S. Naipauls Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition. In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Af
In V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds we follow Willie Chandran, a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister and his own listlessness
A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipauls vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers . Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, livin
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipauls profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland. Part of the Macmillan Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edg
Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilizati
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of th
With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial mans experience in the post-colonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of
Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved from the coastal settlement where he grew up to an unnamed country in the African interior (largely based on
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself
Among the Believers is V. S. Naipauls classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; the believers are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS 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
"The Nobel Prize winner's first great novel" (Barack Obama), A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short y
The third book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy, with a preface by the author. India: A Million Mutinies Now is a truly perceptive work whose insights continue to inform travellers of all generations to India. Much has changed since V. S. N