Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul

By V.S. Naipaul

Book Overview

For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. - "Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception." --The New York Times Book Review

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307594025
• ISBN13: 9780307594020
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.0" x 8.2"