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A Writer's People
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People , he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on?Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among... more...
Between Father and Son
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.00At seventeen, V.S. Naipaul wanted to "follow no other profession" but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he was encountered a vastly different world from the one he yearned to leave behind. Separated from his family by continents, and grappling with depression, financial strain, loneliness,... more...
Half a Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00In 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 of his... more...
The Masque of Africa
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00Like all of V. S. Naipaul?s ?travel? books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. From V. S. Naipaul: ?For my travel books I travel... more...
Literary Occasions
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.00Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity?which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul?s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child;... more...
The Writer and the World
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how... more...
Magic Seeds
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 14.00Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul?s 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... more...
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
Knopf Canada 2012; US$ 23.00(includes The Suffrage of Elvira , A Flag on the Island and Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion ) Written early in V. S. Naipaul?s prolific career, these three works of fiction ? two novels and a collection of stories ? are ample evidence of his cosmopolitan reach and his seemingly effortless command of broad comedy and acute observation. From... more...
The Masque of Africa
Knopf Canada 2010; US$ 21.00Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction... more...
Collected Short Fiction
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 25.00For 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... more...









