Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From the Booker Prize-winning author, The Loss of El Dorado shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries.
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the Aboriginal people 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.
Through an accumulation of casual, awful detail, Naipaul takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the Caribbean slave plantations - at the time thought to be more brutal than their American equivalents.
In this brilliantly researched book, living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative - about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution - which is never less than gripping.
'A formidable achievement . . . No historian has attempted to weave together in so subtle a manner the threads of the most complex and turbulent period of Caribbean history' - The Times Literary Supplement
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature
| ISBN: | 9781035091508 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 2026 |
| Author: | Sir VS Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Genres: |
Colonialism and imperialism Slavery and abolition of slavery Migration, immigration and emigration History of other geographical groupings and regions |
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From the Booker Prize-winning author, The Loss of El Dorado shows how the alchemic delusion of El Dorado drew the small island of Trinidad into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a Mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries.
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the Aboriginal people 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.
Through an accumulation of casual, awful detail, Naipaul takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the Caribbean slave plantations - at the time thought to be more brutal than their American equivalents.
In this brilliantly researched book, living characters large and small are rescued from the records and set in a larger, guiding narrative - about the New World, empire, African slavery, revolution - which is never less than gripping.
'A formidable achievement . . . No historian has attempted to weave together in so subtle a manner the threads of the most complex and turbulent period of Caribbean history' - The Times Literary Supplement
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature
The Loss of El Dorado features in the following genres: Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of other geographical groupings and regions
The Loss of El Dorado is available in Paperback
The Loss of El Dorado was written by Sir VS Naipaul and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Loss of El Dorado has 400 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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