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In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
In a Free State: A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives by V. S. Naipaul
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. In a Free State tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London wh ...Show more
India: A Wounded Civilisation by Naipaul V S
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilisatio ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
Literary Occasions - Essays by V.S. Naipaul
14.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Magic Seeds by V. S. Naipaul
34.95 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From V.S. Naipaul - a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willy Chandra - whom we first met in Half a Life - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he su ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V S Naipaul
29.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. Part of the Macmillan Collector's L ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more