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In a Free State (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V S Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...Show more
In a Free State: A Novel with Two Supporting Narratives by V. S. Naipaul
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The theme is displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land, the attendant heartache. In a Free State tells first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London wh ...Show more
India: A Wounded Civilisation by Naipaul V S
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilisatio ...Show more
India - An Area of Darkness, India: a Wounded Civilization and India: a Million Mutinies Now by V.s. Naipaul
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction from Paul Theroux, author of The Great Railway Bazaar.V.S. Naipaul first visited India in 1962 at twenty-nine. He returned in 2015 at eighty-two. The intervening years and visits sparked by an inquisitiveness about a country he had never seen but had been a dream of his since childh ...Show more
Literary Occasions - Essays by V.S. Naipaul
14.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Magic Seeds by V. S. Naipaul
34.95 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From V.S. Naipaul - a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willy Chandra - whom we first met in Half a Life - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he su ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul
24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work 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 ...Show more
The Enigma of Arrival (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V S Naipaul
29.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
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. Part of the Macmillan Collector's L ...Show more