A Way in the World
A Sequence
$23.98
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
18 March 2011
Summary
After a hiatus of seven years, V.S. Naipaul returned to fiction with A Way in the World: an exquisite meditation on rootlessness and belonging.
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 choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330522885 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330522884 |
| Author: | V.S. Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
His own modern labour of love, loss and disquiet, this really is a book to treasure.
His own modern labour of love, loss and disquiet, this really is a book to treasure. – Malcolm Bradbury * Sunday Express *
One of his supreme triumphs. – Adam Thorpe * European *
A bewitching piece of work by a mind at the peak of its abilities. * New York Times Book Review *
V.S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of thirteen works of fiction, including A Bend in the River, The Mystic Masseur and The Enigma of Arrival, and ten books of non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and Among the Believers. He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His latest novel, Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
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