In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature''s great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul''s) life and work."--New York Times.


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