Review?V. S. Naipaul is the world?s writer, a master of language and perception.? ?_The New York Times Book Review_ ?As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.? ?_The New York ...
Review?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.??Mel Gussow, Newsday ?For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer ali...
A profound and moving novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella...
Review“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.”–_The New York Times Book Review “Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, ...
SUMMARY: 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, t...
Review?One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.? ?Mel Gussow, Newsday ?Miguel Street is the Bowery, the Tenderloin, and the Catfish R...
From Publishers WeeklyMandvi turns in a soft, reserved performance of Naipaul's novel about idealism, revolution and self-discovery. The book follows on the heels of Naipaul's Half...
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu...
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou...