Vintage Naipaul - Vintage Original Author:V.S. Naipaul Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. — “The most splendid writer of English alive today. . . . He looks into the mad eye of history and does not blink.” —The Boston Globe — Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V.S. Naipaul... more » is our most intelligent and unflinching observer of the collision between modern and traditional societies. His novels, essays, and reportage are distinguished by their wit, outrage, and compassion, and by a prophetic vision of individuals caught in the tectonic upheavals of history.
Vintage Naipaul includes the prologue and first chapter of the novel A House for Mr. Biswas; a vignette from the novel Half a Life; “Jasmine” from The Overcrowded Barracoon; “Synthesis and Mimicry” from India: A Wounded Civilization; “A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa” from The Writer and the World; “Jack’s Garden” from his memoir The Enigma of Arrival; and the story “The Bomoh’s Son” from the collection Beyond Belief.