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India
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.95A New York Times Notable Book Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul?s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul?s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of... more...
Among the Believers
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 9.58Among the Believers is V.S. Naipaul?s classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia; ?the believers? are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam... more...
Guerrillas
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions.... more...
Beyond Belief
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 9.58This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to create a world of virtue and prosperity in equal... more...
Literary Occasions
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul?s boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul?s observations on Conrad, his literary... more...
Magic Seeds
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister ? and his own listlessness ? and joins an underground movement in India. But years of revolutionary campaigns and then prison convince him that the revolution ?had... more...
An Area of Darkness
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 9.58AN AREA OF DARKNESS is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he began to experience a sense of cultural estrangement from the subcontinent.... more...
The Loss of El Dorado
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 9.58At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of the new slave colony. Naipaul shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island... more...
A House For Mr Biswas
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 9.58A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of... more...
A Way in the World
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 8.95?His own modern labour of love, loss and disquiet, this really is a book to treasure? Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Express This vastly innovative novel explores colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction. Naipaul offers a personal... more...









