V. S. Naipaul: Collected Short Fiction
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- Kustantaja: Everyman's Library
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780307594020
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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. '