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Bend in the River
Inbunden, 2019
179 kr
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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 the Democratic Republic of Congo), settling …
Efter kolonialväldet : två romaner om en övergiven värld
Inbunden, 2021
225 kr
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Nobelpristagaren V S Naipauls främsta romaner i vacker samlingsvolym Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in sig …
In a Free State
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
112 kr
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No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, …
Bend in the River
E-bok, 2010
106 kr
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In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the …
Ett hus åt Mr Biswas
E-bok, 2022
119 kr
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“Knappast någon annan samtida författare kan tävla med V.S. Naipaul.” New York Times Book Review Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [ A House for Mr Biswas , 1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig …
Miguel Street
E-bok, 2010
80 kr
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“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to …
Efter kolonialväldet: Två romaner om en övergiven värld
Av Stefan Helgesson, V. S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2021
169 kr
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Nobelpristagaren V. S. Naipauls främsta romaner i vacker samlingsvolym Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in …
Writer's People
E-bok, 2011
193 kr
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V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer''s People , he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early …
Half a Life
A Novel
E-bok, 2009
76 kr
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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie …
Literary Occasions
Essays
E-bok, 2010
197 kr
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Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul’s …
Magic Seeds
E-bok, 2010
197 kr
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Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life . Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to …
Writer and the World
Essays
E-bok, 2010
152 kr
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Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on …
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2011
96 kr
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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 …
India
A Million Mutinies Now
E-bok, 2011
240 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A …
Enigma of Arrival
E-bok, 2011
208 kr
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The story of a writer''s singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul''s most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make …
Mystic Masseur
E-bok, 2010
213 kr
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In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a …
Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
And Other Comic Inventions
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction–two novels and a collection of stories–that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor. The Suffrage of Elvira is …
Middle Passage
E-bok, 2010
96 kr
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In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In this classic of modern travel writing he has created a deft and remarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacent Caribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of …
Area of Darkness
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, …
House for Mr. Biswas
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
208 kr
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The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, 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 years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to …
Mimic Men
A Novel
E-bok, 2010
176 kr
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A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on …
Turn in the South
E-bok, 2011
160 kr
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In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to …
Way in the World
A Novel
E-bok, 2011
224 kr
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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 …
Among the Believers
An Islamic Journey
E-bok, 2011
213 kr
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Naipaul''s controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time." From the Trade Paperback edition.
