V.S. Naipaul

For 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 Awardwinning...

A NovelA profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial mans experience in a postcolonial world.Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to...

A NovelThe early masterpiece of V. S. Naipauls brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only...

A NovelIn his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature's great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.--New York...

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.From the Trade Paperback edition....

A NovelNo writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In...