{"product_id":"the-nightwatchmans-occurrence-book-and-other-comic-inventions-0375708332-used","title":"The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0375708332\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Naipaul, V. S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes two novels and a collection of stories that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.The worlds writer, a master of language and perception. -The New York Times Book ReviewThe Suffrage of Elvira is Naipauls hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad-whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name-to a rooming house in London-where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67963310539040,"sku":"USED0375708332","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61nzvO1Hc3L_6a601b85-6d57-42e5-874c-d00c3eb5ef9a.jpg?v=1792908292","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/en-gb\/products\/the-nightwatchmans-occurrence-book-and-other-comic-inventions-0375708332-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}