V.S. Naipaul

Miliony zbuntowanychPodróżując przez kolejne indyjskie metropolie – Bombaj, Madras, Kalkutę i Delhi – Naipaul tworzy mieniący się niczym w kalejdoskopie, wielopłaszczyznowy obraz tego niezwykłego kraju, pędzącego ku zmianom, a jednocześnie zatrzymanego w czasie. Oddaje w ręce czytelników swój dziennik z podróży pełen refleksji i spostrzeżeń...

And Other Comic InventionsV. S. Naipauls legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fictiontwo novels and a collection of storiesthat capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipauls hilarious take on an...

In the brilliant novel (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens...

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipauls magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed...

The story of a writer's singular journeyfrom one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to anotherthis is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.From the Trade...

A NovelIn a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core...