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A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the i ...Show more
A Bend in the River by Naipaul V.S.
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
An acknowledged masterpiece by one of the towering literary giants of our time. When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. Accompanied by Metty, the son of one of the family slaves, he travels deep into the heart of the continent to become a trader in ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul / V. S. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKSOne of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling by V. S. Naipaul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing. Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul
A Writer's People: Ways of looking and feeling by Naipaul V S
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'My purpose is not literary criticism or biography. I wish only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which I was exposed.' For the 'serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own fa ...Show more
Among the Believers - An Islamic journey by V.S. Naipaul
$32.95 NZD
Category: Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia. The 'Believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battl ...Show more
An Area of Darkness (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V S Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make ...Show more
In A Free State by Naipaul V S
$27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompan ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by editor and author Robert McCrum. Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply u ...Show more
In a Free State (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V S Naipaul
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...Show more
In a Free State: A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives by V. S. Naipaul
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. In a Free State tells 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 wh ...Show more