V S Naipaul: 48 books

Book cover of The Masque of Africa

The Masque of Africa

Glimpses of African Belief

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge 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 civilization. From...
Book cover of Collected Short Fiction
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are...
Book cover of En un Estado libre
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Tan divertida como espeluznante, tan triste como perdurable, En un Estado libre es la novela del autor Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul en plenitud de facultades. Dos ingleses residentes en África -Bobby, un funcionario con cierta inclinación por los muchachos del continente, y Linda,...
Book cover of Miguel Street
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Situada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y narrada por un adolescente sin nombre, precoz observador de su barrio, Miguel Street es una novela de juventud, tierna y divertida, que rebosa vida en todas sus páginas. Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul. Para los vecinos de Miguel Street,...
Book cover of El enigma de la llegada
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

En 1920, un joven hindú deja su Trinidad natal para abrirse camino en la metrópolis, una nueva realidad que lo desconcierta y le obliga a buscar un lugar en el mundo. Una novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul. Un joven hindú, nacido en Trinidad, llega a la antigua metrópoli...
Book cover of The Writer and the World
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies...
Book cover of A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives...
Book cover of The Loss of El Dorado

The Loss of El Dorado

A Colonial History

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011

The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into...
Book cover of Nueva York con Norman Mailer (Colección Endebate)
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 17, 2012

V.S. Naipaul sigue como periodista la legendaria campaña de Norman Mailer a la alcaldía de Nueva York en 1969. La política estadounidense vivió numerosos sobresaltos en los años 60. Uno de ellos fue la mediática campaña del polémico escritor Norman Mailer a la alcaldía de Nueva York....
Book cover of La máscara de África

La máscara de África

Un viaje por las creencias africanas

by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 3, 2011

El primer gran libro de Naipaul desde el premio Nobel, su regreso a la literatura de viajes y a África. «Para mis libros de viajes viajo alrededor de un tema. Y el tema de La máscara de África son las creencias africanas. Comienzo en Uganda, en el centro del continente, voy a Ghana y a...
Book cover of Semillas mágicas
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 26, 2013

«Muertos Evelyn Waugh y Anthony Burgess y ninguneado siempre Malcolm Lowry, Naipaul es el único gran escritor inglés que vale la pena leer.» Guillermo Cabrera Infante, El Cultural, El Mundo Willie Chandran, personaje ya célebre en la obra de V. S. Naipaul, decide cambiar el rumbo...
Book cover of Media vida
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Por su visión del amor pleno y del amor frustrado, de las «medias vidas» que se viven plácidamente en el corazón de nuestro incansable mundo, esta novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul proyecta la particular visión del autor sobre las grietas ocultas de nuestra humanidad compartida. En...
Book cover of India

India

A Wounded Civilization

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of...
Book cover of The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book

And Other Comic Inventions

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction–two novels and a collection of stories–that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor. The Suffrage of Elvira...
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