A Way in the World

by NAIPAUL, V. S.

• ISBN13: 9780679761662
• ISBN10: 0679761667
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1995-06-24
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

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.

Author Biography

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
 
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

Table of Contents

Prelude: An Inheritance	2	(12)
History: A Smell of Fish Glue	12	(32)
New Clothes: An Unwritten Story	44	(26)
Passenger: A Figure from the Thirties	70	(36)
On the Run	106	(56)
A Parcel of Papers, a Roll of Tobacco, a Tortoise: An Unwritten Story	162	(50)
A New Man	212	(32)
In the Gulf of Desolation: An Unwritten Story	244	(108)
Home Again	352