V S Naipaul: 48 books

Un ministro colonial caído en desgracia escribe sus memorias desde su exilio londinense. Una novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul. Ralph Singh, un hombre de ascendencia india y educado en una isla caribeña, se retira a las afueras de Londres a escribir sus memorias. El...

The story of a writer's singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

Naipaul's controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world was hailed by The New Republic as "the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time."

"The Nobel Prize winner's first great novel" (Barack Obama), A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against...

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose...