In a Free State - Softcover

Naipaul, V. S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330524801 ISBN 13: 9780330524803

Verlag: Picador, 2011

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Naipaul's travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the century -- Martin Amis A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experience -- Dennis Potter * The Times *

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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story 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 who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fictional country somewhere like Uganda or Rwanda. The novel's central characters once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive - the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage - we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul's greatest novels, hard but full of pity. This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330524801
• ISBN 13: 9780330524803
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256