A way in the world - V S Naipaul

This novel explores colonial inheritance in a series of narratives that swing back and forth between past and present. It draws on examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, such as Raleigh's last expedition, placed within a context of echoing modernity.

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. Since he started writing in 1954 he has won many prizes including the booker prize for the novelIn a Free State(1971). Among his works of non-fiction areAmong the Believers: An Islamic Journey(1981);Finding the Centre(1984); andA Turn in the South(1989). His novels includeGuerillas,A Bend in the RiverandThe Enigma of Arrival.

"There is not a page that is not stamped with Naipaul's compelling charm and peculiar authority...he retains, somehow or other, a sense of wonder at the varieties of human experience and the infinite vagaries of human behaviour"
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