Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library

Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series Book 334)

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winnerâ€™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 Awardâ€“winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidadâ€™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 Prizeâ€“ 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.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-04-12
Format Kindle eBook

Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series Book 334)