V.S. Naipaul
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In a Free State
Man Booker Prize Winner of All Time Shortlist
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52290-8
EAN 9780330522908
In a Free State was conceived in 1969 as a sequence about displacement. There was to be a central novel, set in Africa, with shorter surrounding matter from other places. The shorter pieces from these varied places were intended to throw a universal light on the African material.But then, as the years passed and the ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52291-5
EAN 9780330522915
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52300-4
EAN 9780330523004
Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy.We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build the wild thing ...
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A Writer's People
Ways of Looking and Feeling
- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52298-4
EAN 9780330522984
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 ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52296-0
EAN 9780330522960
In 1950, V. S. Naipaul travelled from Trinidad to England to take up a place at Oxford University.Over the next few years letters passed back and forth between V. S. Naipaul and his family particularly his beloved father Seepersad, but also his mother and siblings.The result is a fascinating chronicle of Naipaul's time at university; ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 326 páginas
PVP: 13,45 €
ISBN 978-0-330-47204-3
EAN 9780330472043
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 civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52369-1
EAN 9780330523691
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world.Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage -- many of which have been unavailable for some time -- are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52294-6
EAN 9780330522946
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South.Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52285-4
EAN 9780330522854
In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52289-2
EAN 9780330522892
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 third novel 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 bad omen, Mohun Biswas has ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52299-1
EAN 9780330522991
Set in an unnamed African country, the book is 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 initiative; ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52286-1
EAN 9780330522861
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture 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 as a writer. It is the story of a journey, from one place to another, ...
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- Picador, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52288-5
EAN 9780330522885
This vastly innovative novel explores colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction. Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagined vision of Raleigh's last expedition and ...
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x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B Cinco ensayos que reflexionan sobre las figuras literarias que han marcado la escritura de Naipaul, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2001.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;I El escritor y los suyosx{0026}lt;/I , a medias reflexión, a medias libro de memorias, es un viaje por los mundos reales y escritos que han conformado la literatura de Naipaul, ...
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Ambientada en el convulso periodo de la independencia de un país africano, Un recodo en el río es una novela sobre los efectos de la política en las vidas de los individuos y los esfuerzos de estos por cumplir sus sueños. Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul.Salim es el descendiente de una próspera ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52284-7
EAN 9780330522847
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred ...
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Among the Believers
An Islamic Journey
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52282-3
EAN 9780330522823
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 battling to regain the original purity of their faith ...
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Beyond Belief
Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples
- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-51787-4
EAN 9780330517874
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 ...
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52271-7
EAN 9780330522717
THE SECOND BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India.Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization. In this work he casts a more analytical eye than before over Indian ...
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