V S Naipaul: 48 books

Book cover of Between Father and Son

Between Father and Son

Family Letters

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007

  At seventeen, V.S. Naipaul wanted to "follow no other profession" but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he was encountered a vastly different world from the one he yearned to leave behind. Separated from his family by continents,...
Book cover of A Writer's People
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011

V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, which has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed...
Book cover of The Mystic Masseur
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand...
Book cover of Half a Life

Half a Life

A Novel

by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie...
Book cover of Una casa para el señor Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Considerada la obra más significativa del Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul, esta novela retrata la imposibilidad de los inmigrantes de integrarse en una cultura colonial y seguir manteniendo sus raíces. Naipaul nos ofrece la historia de un hombre educado para pandit en su pequeña...
Book cover of Un recodo en el río
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 25, 2016

Ambientada en el convulso periodo de la independencia de un país africano, Un recodo en el río es una novela sobre los efectos de la política en las vidas de los individuos y los esfuerzos de estos por cumplir sus sueños. Por el Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul. Salim es el descendiente...
Book cover of Een huis voor meneer Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 31, 2016

In V.S. Naipauls ‘Een huis voor meneer Biswas’ wordt Mohun Biswas na de verdrinkingsdood van zijn vader van de ene naar de andere verblijfplaats gestuurd, totdat hij in de familie Tulsi trouwt. Maar daarmee is nog steeds geen einde gekomen aan zijn afhankelijkheid van anderen. Hij komt in opstand...
Book cover of A Way in the World
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

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.
Book cover of Een bocht in de rivier
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 13, 2015

V.S. Naipauls roman ‘Een bocht in de rivier’ beschrijft hoe een man, en een land, ten prooi vallen aan de naschokken van het koloniale verleden. In een naamloos Afrikaans land, in een stad aan een bocht in de rivier, begint Salim, telg uit een familie van Indische kooplieden, een winkel in huishoudelijke...
Book cover of Het raadsel van de aankomst
by V.S. Naipaul
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 15, 2018

V.S. Naipauls Het raadsel van de aankomst is een geraffineerde autobiografie en een met ironie en afstand geschreven roman over de veranderingen op het Engelse platteland als gevolg van het uiteenvallen van het Engelse wereldrijk. Een jonge schrijver, afkomstig uit het Caraïbisch gebied, trekt zich...
Book cover of Al límite de la fe

Al límite de la fe

Entre los pueblos conversos del Islam

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

"Una punzante y devastadora radiografía del mundo islámico" Revista de Libros En Al límite de la fe, Naipaul se interna en cuatro países -Indonesia, Pakistán, Irán y Malaisia- conversos al islam, pero no árabes. Como en otras obras del autor, la narración puede considerarse...
Book cover of Miguel Street
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood...
Book cover of A Turn in the South
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.
Book cover of Magic Seeds
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life*.* Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India...
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