{"product_id":"collected-short-fiction-of-v-s-naipaul-9780307594020","title":"Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. - \"Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOver 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 Award-winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize- winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis novels include \u003ci\u003eA House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Arrival.\u003c\/i\u003e In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for \u003ci\u003eIn a Free State.\u003c\/i\u003e His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include \u003ci\u003eAmong the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, \u003c\/i\u003e and a trio of books about India: \u003ci\u003eAn Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844282323218,"sku":"9780307594020","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_334177db-bb47-4a7c-8955-8e8a1f2e89b3.jpg?v=1737315793","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/collected-short-fiction-of-v-s-naipaul-9780307594020","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}