- Fiction, East Indians, Indians in Africa, India, fiction
After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.
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Classical in form, grave, prestige and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- V. S. Naipaul
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Knopf ; distributed by Random House, Tian xia yüan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si, Modern Library
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780786184583
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“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel *A House for Mr Biswas* was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a *Free State,* and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literat
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