Book description
This wonderful collection of essays by V. S. Naipul features pieces
taken from his earlier books - The Overcrowded Barracoon, The Return of
Eva Peron and Finding the Centre - and also includes several previously
uncollected essays. Concentrating mainly on V. S. Naipaul's writings
about India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, it is a clear-eyed
and magnificent introduction to the writer's extraordinary world. 'How
few writers there are, if any, who share his sense of mission and moral
authority, who have his willingness to learn and to travel and his
miraculous gift of language. Is there no one who could persuade him to
go on one last journey?' Observer 'As these essays lavishly demonstrate,
he is a true citizen of the world, and he richly deserves the Nobel
prize he was awarded last year' Scotlandon Sunday
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went
to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at
UniversityCollege, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has
followed no other profession. He has published more than 20 books of
fiction and nonfiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr.
Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters,
Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
