Description
| Product ID: | 9780330524803 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | In a Free State |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. <p><b>Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. </b><br><br><i>In a Free State</i> tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fictional country somewhere like Uganda or Rwanda. <br><br>The novel's central characters once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive – the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage – we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul’s greatest novels, hard but full of pity. <br><br>This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else’s land and the attendant heartache.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-08-19 |
