Nobel Prize-winning author Naipaul spirals outward from the central African country of Uganda, to Nigeria, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Gabon, and concluding in South Africa, to unearth in six chapters a sense of African ancestral belief and practice.
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Höhe: 204 mm
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978-0-307-45499-7 (9780307454997)
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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.
