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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-330-52370-7
EAN 9780330523707
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR V.S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage ...
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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-330-48712-2
EAN 9780330487122
The Mystic Masseur, V. S. Naipaul's first published novel, is the story of the rise and rise of Ganesh, from failed primary school teacher and struggling masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE - a journey equally memorable for its hilarity as its bewildering success.An unforgettable cast of characters witness this meteoric ascent: Ganesh's father-in-law, ...
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x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B Ambientada en una isla del Caribe al borde de la revolución, donde asiáticos, africanos, americanos y antiguos colonos británicos conviven en un estado de histeria contenida, x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;I x{0026}lt;B Guerrillasx{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;B es una novela sobre el colonialismo y la revolución.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 21,90 €
ISBN 978-84-397-2369-1
EAN 9788439723691
x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B El primer gran libro de Naipaul desde el premio Nobel, su regreso a la literatura de viajes y a África.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Para mis libros de viajes viajo alrededor de un tema. Y el tema de x{0026}lt;I La máscara de África x{0026}lt;/I son las creencias africanas. Comienzo en Uganda, en el centro del ...
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x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B Una de las obras cumbre de la literatura de viajes de todos los tiempo donde el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul, mucho antes de que el resurgir islámico se convirtiera en un problema global, fue capaz de detectarlo y exponerlo.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Al ver en 1979 el éxito de la revolución islámica ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 409 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-59402-0
EAN 9780307594020
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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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 Ambientada en una isla del Caribe al borde de la revolución, donde asiáticos, africanos, americanos y antiguos colonos británicos conviven en un estado de histeria contenida, x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;I x{0026}lt;B Guerrillasx{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/I x{0026}lt;B es una novela sobre el colonialismo y la revolución.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. ...
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