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EAN-139780241135686   EAN-13 barcode 9780241135686
Product NameCollected Short Fiction (Everyman's Library)
LanguageEnglish
CategoryBook / Magazine / Publication
Amazon.comA Buy on Amazon ~ 0307594025
SKUVI-0241135680
Price New6.90 US Dollars    (curriencies)
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Width1.16 inches    (convert)
Height8.29 inches    (convert)
Length5.23 inches    (convert)
Weight18.88 ounces    (convert)
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
Page Count440
BindingHardcover
Published04/12/2011
Long DescriptionFor 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 stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’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 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.
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