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A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and d ...Show more
A Bend in the River by V S Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General 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 House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul / V. S. Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General 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: Picador Classic by V. S. Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
'A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.' - Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a ba ...Show more
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V. S. Naipaul
30.00 NZD
Category: Religion
This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole; of religion and nation; and of the constant struggle to cr ...Show more
In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General 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
25.00 NZD
Category: Classics | 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 : The Novel by V. S. Naipaul
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a Free State: The Novel is set in Africa, in a place like Uganda or Rwanda, and its two main characters are English. They had once found liberation in Africa. But now Africa is going sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make a long drive to the safet ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself ...Show more
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by V. S. Naipaul
30.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
'Compelling, insightful, often sombrely beautiful' Sunday Telegraph Moving beyond travelogue, The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilizatio ...Show more
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