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A House for Mr. Biswas

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**From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.“A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.” —Newsweek**In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to ... Read more

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**From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.“A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.” —Newsweek**In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to
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The Mystic Masseur

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad.“No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of Books**In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive ... Read more

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a Dickensian novel that traces the unlikely career of a failed schoolteacher and village masseur who becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad.“No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of Books**In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive
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The Mimic Men

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by V. S. Naipaul ...

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world.“No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of BooksBorn of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired ... Read more

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world.“No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of BooksBorn of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired
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The story of a writer’s singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel. ... Read more

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The story of a writer’s singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul’s most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.
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In a Free State

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**From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread.“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.” —The New York Times Book Review**No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.In the beginning it is ... Read more

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**From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread.“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.” —The New York Times Book Review**No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.In the beginning it is
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A Bend in the River

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Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. • "Brilliant." —The New York TimesIn this haunting masterpiece of postcolonial literature, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979, Naipaul gives us a convincing and disturbing ... Read more

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Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. • "Brilliant." —The New York TimesIn this haunting masterpiece of postcolonial literature, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979, Naipaul gives us a convincing and disturbing
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Half a Life

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity."A masterpiece." —Los Angeles Times Book Review**The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity."A masterpiece." —Los Angeles Times Book Review**The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at
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Miguel Street

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**A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy—from the Nobel Prize-winning author.“One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” —Newsday**“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he ... Read more

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**A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy—from the Nobel Prize-winning author.“One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” —Newsday**“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he
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The Enigma of Arrival

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The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." —Chicago Tribune"A subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book WorldThe story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state ... Read more

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The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." —Chicago Tribune"A subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book WorldThe story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state
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A Turn in the South

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The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. • “His comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so ... Read more

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The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. • “His comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so
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A Way in the World

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author—and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times)—spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism."Dickensian … a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."—The New York Times**“Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back ... Read more

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author—and "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angeles Times)—spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism."Dickensian … a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."—The New York Times**“Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back
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Magic Seeds

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.“The most essential English-language novelist of our time.” —New York**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 ... Read more

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**The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.“The most essential English-language novelist of our time.” —New York**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
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