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    A House for Mr Biswas

    V. S. Naipaul

    From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's best-loved novel, a tragicomic tour de force.

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    V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad

    Nivedita Misra

    The book collects material from local critics, newspapers and interviews to present V. S. Naipaul in new light as a "true blue" Trinidadian writer. The book foregrounds Naipaul's deep connections…

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    V. S. Naipaul’s Journeys

    Sanjay Krishnan

    Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul's work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul's…

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    A House for Mr Biswas

    V. S. Naipaul

    A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.

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    V. S. Naipaul and World Literature

    Vijay Mishra

    V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest author study that engages with history, genre theory…

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    India: An Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization & A Million Mutinies Now

    V. S. Naipaul

    Part of the Picador Classic series with an introduction from Paul Theroux.

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    The Enigma of Arrival

    V. S. Naipaul

    A moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.

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    A Bend in the River

    V. S. Naipaul

    A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    India: An Area Of Darkness, A Wounded Civilization & A Million Mutinies Now

    V. S. Naipaul

    India is the collection of three classic books by V. S. Naipaul, introduced by fellow traveller and writer Paul Theroux.

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    V. S. Naipaul

    Ghanshyam Pal

    This book entitled Transforming Subaltern Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of V.S. Naipaul Works presents critical analysis and assessment of Naipaul’s fictions, attempts to restate the fact that Naipaul is the…

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    V. S. Naipaul

    Fawzia Mustafa (Fordham University, New York)

    Fawzia Mustafa gives a critical overview of the fictional and non-fictional works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. The main concern is with the literary, but…

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    V. S. Naipaul

    Fawzia Mustafa (Fordham University, New York)

    Fawzia Mustafa gives a critical overview of the fictional and non-fictional works of V. S. Naipaul from 1950 to the present day. The main concern is with the literary, but…

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    Conversations with V. S. Naipaul

    Intense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won nearly every major British writing award. This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing…

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    V. S. Naipaul (Routledge Revivals)

    Peter Hughes

    First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life…

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    V. S. Naipaul (Routledge Revivals)

    Peter Hughes

    First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life…

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    Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul

    V. S. Naipaul

    Offers insight into the author’s range and creative process, in a treasury that includes pieces from such classics as Miguel Street and In a Free State.

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    V. S. Naipaul: Post-Colonial Melancholia

    Jit Pal Aggarwal

    The book entitled V. S. NAIPAUL: POST-COLONIAL MELANCHOLIA is about the oeuvre of V.S. Naipaul who won Nobel Prize of Literature in 2003. This book is an intensive study of…

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    The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections

    V. S. Naipaul

    A moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.

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    The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions

    V. S. Naipaul

    The three stories in this book, The Suffrage of Elvira, A Flag on the Island and Mr. Stone and the Knight’s Companion, take readers from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad…

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    Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

    V. S. Naipaul

    Explores the revolutionary character of the Islamic faith and discusses what really is happening in those countries in which Islamic fundamentalism is prevalent, as seen through the eyes of the…

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    In a Free State

    V. S. Naipaul

    Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Sir V.S. Naipaul’s best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.

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    Guerrillas

    V. S. Naipaul

    A former hero of the South African resistance and his English mistress arrrive on a troubled Caribbean island, where their involvement with a young mulatto revolutionary leader leads to violence.

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    Between Father and Son: Family Letters

    V. S. Naipaul

    A collection of letters between noted emigre writer V.S. Naipaul, living in England, and his father living in Trinidad are presented, illuminating the relationship between a sacrificing father and his…

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    The Mimic Men

    V. S. Naipaul

    A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    Magic Seeds

    V. S. Naipaul

    Presenting a moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it, this novel is also a testing study of the conflicts between the rich…

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    The Writer and the World: Essays

    V. S. Naipaul

    The essential shorter works of reflection and reportage, many of them long out of print, by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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    Literary Occasions: Essays

    V. S. Naipaul

    From a master of the English language comes this astonishing collection of essays about reading, writing, and identity.

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    The Enigma of Arrival

    V. S. Naipaul

    Perhaps Naipaul’s most autobiographical work, this is the story of a writer’s singular journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

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    Letters Between a Father and Son

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul’s formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.

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    The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India

    V. S. Naipaul

    This travel book looks at the scenes and sites of India, as well as providing an account of the personality of the author himself.

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    In a Free State: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    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
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    A Way in the World: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, one of literature’s great travelers (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a…

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    The Mystic Masseur

    V. S. Naipaul

    The Nobel Prize winner’s first novel traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic and the most…

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    The Mimic Men: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism.

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    The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane meditation on belief from the late Nobel Laureate, Sir V. S. Naipaul.

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    In a Free State

    V. S. Naipaul

    Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

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    In a Free State

    V. S. Naipaul

    Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Sir V.S. Naipaul’s best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.

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    Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey

    V. S. Naipaul

    An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.

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    India: A Million Mutinies Now

    V. S. Naipaul

    Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1990.

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    India: A Wounded Civilization

    V. S. Naipaul

    Returning to India–the subject of his acclaimed An Area of Darkness –in 1975, Naipaul produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a…

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    A Turn in the South

    V. S. Naipaul

    Explores the complex life and culture of the South through interviews with well-known personalities and with everyday citizens, covering topics from religious fundamentalism to issues of race, class, and heritage.

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    A House for Mr. Biswas: A Novel

    V. S. Naipaul

    Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas’s struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight…

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    Miguel Street

    V. S. Naipaul

    The time is World War II, the setting a derelict street in Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain. In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents’ lives (and the legends…

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    Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples

    V. S. Naipaul

    A fascinating follow-up to Among the Believers by one of our most brilliant writers.

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    The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History

    V. S. Naipaul

    A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    A Way in the World: A Sequence

    V. S. Naipaul

    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.

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    A Turn in the South

    V. S. Naipaul

    A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery - essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

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