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His own modern labour of love, loss and disquiet, this really is a book to treasure' malcolm bradbury, sunday express this vastly innovative novel explores colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of spanish and british imperial history in the caribbean, including an imagined vision of raleigh's last expedition and an introduction to francisco de miranda, a would-be liberator and precursor to bolívar, which are placed within a context of echoing modernity and framed by two more personal, heavily autobiographical sections sketching the narrator - an eloquent yet humble man of indian descent who grew up in trinidad but spent much of his adult life in england and africa meditative and dramatic, these historical reconstructions, imbued with naipaul's acute perception, drawn with his deft and sensitive touch, and told in his beautifully wrought prose, are transmuted into an astonishing novel exploring the profound and mysterious effect of history on the individual one of his supreme triumphs' adam thorpe, european a bewitching piece of work by a mind at the peak of its abilities' new york times book review
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In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.
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V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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