In a Free State: A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives - Brossura

Naipaul, V. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330524801 ISBN 13: 9780330524803

Casa editrice: Pan Macmillan, 2011

Riassunto

Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fictional country somewhere like Uganda or Rwanda. The novel's central characters once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive - the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage - we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul's greatest novels, hard but full of pity. This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache.

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Descrizione del libro:

V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning novel set in an African state.

L'autore:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between A Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330524801
• ISBN 13: 9780330524803
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256