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Enigma of Arrival
A Novel in Five Sections
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
229 kr
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A beautifully rendered work of autofiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.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 …
Guerrillas
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
156 kr
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Set on a troubled Caribbean island – where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria – V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of …
Vid flodens krök
Av V.S. Naipaul
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 I Vid flodens krök [ A Bend in the River , 1979] fortsätter Naipaul sin illusionslösa skildring av den postkoloniala världen: Salim kommer från en gammal indisk köpmanssläkt. Han slår sig ner i ett icke …
Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
and Other Comic Inventions
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
184 kr
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With a preface by the author. 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 …
In a Free State
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
130 kr
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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in …
Magic Seeds
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2025
134 kr
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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 – and joins an underground movement in India. …
Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
224 kr
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Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s …
Masque of Africa
Glimpses of African Belief
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
150 kr
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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 civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the …
Letters Between a Father and Son
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
204 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureFrom the Booker Prize-winning author, Letters Between a Father and Son is an engrossing collection continuing into the early years of V. S. Naipaul’s literary career.In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford …
In a Free State
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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The central novel from V.S. Naipaul’s 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 Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from …
Magic Seeds
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
194 kr
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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 – and joins an underground movement in India. …
India: A Wounded Civilization
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
175 kr
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‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ – The TimesIn 1964 V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits …
Bend in the River
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
194 kr
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Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has …
Beyond Belief
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2010
147 kr
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Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant …
India: A Million Mutinies Now
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2010
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201 kr
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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. Naipaul’s first trip to India and this fascinating …
Loss of El Dorado
A Colonial History
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2010
149 kr
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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 the new slave colony.In The Loss of El Dorado, …
Way in the World
A Sequence
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
114 kr
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A Way in the World is a vastly innovative novel exploring colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction.V. S. Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British …
Mimic Men
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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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 man’s experience in the post-colonial world.Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old …
Turn in the South
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
139 kr
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A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best …
Middle Passage
Impressions of Five Colonial Societies
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
128 kr
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V. S. Naipaul’s first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest – his birthplace.In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his …
Literary Occasions
Essays
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
125 kr
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A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a …
Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
145 kr
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Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s …
Writer and the World
Essays
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2011
160 kr
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During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume.With an abiding faith in …
Turn in the South
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
191 kr
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A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best …
Guerrillas
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
194 kr
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureFrom the Booker Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, Guerrillas is a powerful novel of colonialism and revolution.'A pioneering genius' – ProspectOn a troubled Caribbean island, Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of …
Area of Darkness
His Discovery of India
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
179 kr
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The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was …
Literary Occasions
Essays
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
176 kr
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A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a …
Writer and the World
Essays
Av V.S. Naipaul
E-bok, 2012
229 kr
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During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume.With an abiding faith in …
A House for Mr Biswas
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2025
160 kr
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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 man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.He was struck again and again by the wonder of being in his own …
Among the Believers
Av V.S. Naipaul
Häftad, 2025
139 kr
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‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . . He is a modern master.’ – Sunday TimesReissued in the Picador Collection, Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul’s classic account of his …