Letters Between a Father and Son

Rare and precious … if any modern writer was going to breathe a last gasp into the epistolary tradition, it was always likely to be V. S. Naipaul * The New Statesman *
A very moving book – James Wood * London Review of Books *
A fascinating psychological narrative * The Times *
Remarkable * Literary Review *
Extraordinary and moving … this book is both heartening and terribly sad – Alain de Botton * The Sunday Telegraph *

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

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