For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. "Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception." -The New York Times Book Review
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 Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize- winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.
No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.
| ISBN: | 9780307594020 |
| Publication date: | 12th April 2011 |
| Author: | V S Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 409 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library |
| Genres: |
General Fiction Narrative theme: Politics Shorter Reads |
For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. "Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception." -The New York Times Book Review
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 Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize- winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.
No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.
Collected Short Fiction features in the following genres: General Fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Shorter Reads
Collected Short Fiction is available in Hardback
Collected Short Fiction was written by V S Naipaul and published by Everyman's Library an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Collected Short Fiction has 409 pages
Yes it is part of Everyman's Library series