Collected Short Fiction
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    Apr-2011 (Hardcover)
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    Literary
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    440
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For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.

Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award-winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize-winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.

No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.
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    • First Edition
    • Apr-2011
    • Everyman's Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0307594025
    • ISBN13: 9780307594020
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    • Apr-2011
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307595617
    • ISBN13: 9780307595614
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    • Apr-2011
    • Everyman's Library
    • eBook (Kindle)



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