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V. S. Naipaul
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
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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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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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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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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…
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…
A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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…
This novel follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws in whose house he lives. Finally finding a house…
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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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.
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…
A moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
From a master of the English language comes this astonishing collection of essays about reading, writing, and identity.
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.
An astonishing selection of letters from V. S. Naipaul’s formative years, rich with compassion, literary beauty and a genuine literary intent.
A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
V. S. Naipaul’s Booker Prize-winning novel set in an African state.
A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.
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…
An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter.
With clarity and novelistic drama, Naipaul presents an unparalleled feat of historical writing in this early history of Trinidad. 2 maps.
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…
A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels.
An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.
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.
Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters…
Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the half lives of individuals brought up…
Originally published: Great Britain: Picador, 2007.
V. S. Naipaul’s meditative novel about a stranger in a strange land.
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or propheticallythan V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfectcase in point…
A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery - essential reading for anyone interested in American history.
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…
A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Concentrating mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this writer’s extraordinary world.
V. S. Naipaul’s novel of fraudulent revolution, schizophrenia and murder.
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.
This travel book looks at the scenes and sites of India, as well as providing an account of the personality of the author himself.
