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Part meditation, part remembrance, and as elegant as it is revelatory, "A Writer''s People" allows for privileged insight--full of incident, humor, and feeling--into the mind of a great writer.

Moving beyond travelogue, The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul's journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa. Focusing upon the theme of belief though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic.

Salim, ein indischer Kaufmannssohn von der Ostküste Afrikas, sensibel für politische Veränderungen, verläßt die Heimat, kurz bevor sich hier ein Umbruch vollzieht, und übernimmt in einer innerafrikanischen Stadt ein heruntergekommenes Geschäft. Er versucht Wurzeln zu schlagen, Perspektiven zu gewinnen, aber die Verhältnisse bleiben labil... Der berühmteste und erfolgreichste Roman des großen Erzählers und Nobelpreisträgers. ...

V. S. Naipauls meditative novel about a stranger in a strange land.

A profound novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This is one of V. S. Naipauls greatest novels, hard but full of pity. It won the Booker Prize, in its original edition, in 1971.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipauls best-loved novel.

An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter.

V. S. Naipauls novel of fraudulent revolution, schizophrenia and murder.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

Un libro de viajes escrito desde una mirada sin tópicos, irónica, lúcida, tierna y sarcástica. Una visión de la India que sólo podía hacer V.S. Naipaul, un autor con la doble condición de hindú y eur