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

ISBN: 0307594025

Author: Naipaul, V. S.

Condition: New

For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning authors stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Naipaul is the worlds writer, a master of language and perception. -The New York Times Book ReviewOver 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 Award-winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidads 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 Prize- 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.