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Aug 11, 2018 · He is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all written in characteristic, widely admired, prose. At 17, he won a Trinidad Government scholarship to study abroad.
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Sep 20, 1979 · In his 1979 novel, Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul captures the climate of disruptive & unpredictable transition from colony to a newly independent African country at the center of the continent. The author also portrays the condition of Asians within Africa, people who exist as perpetual expatriates, born in Africa but in no way "African ...
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Jan 1, 2001 · This 1975 novel by V S Naipaul was informed by his 1972 article about a black activist. Michael X had committed grisly murders in the author's birth country, Trinidad. The plot doesn't strictly follow those events however.
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Jan 1, 2001 · 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.
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Nov 17, 2016 · AN AREA OF DARKNESS'Brilliant ... tender, lyrical, explosive' ObserverV.S. Naipaul was twenty-nine when he first visited India. This is his semi-autobiographical account-at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered-a revelation both of the country and of A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION'A devastating work, but proof that a novelist ...
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Jun 8, 2017 · V.S. Naipaul. 3.47. 2,530 ratings215 reviews. The Mystic Masseur, V S Naipaul's first 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. It is a journey memorable for its hilarious and bewildering success.