A Way in the World by V S Naipaul

A Way in the World by V S Naipaul

In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism.Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance.

SKU	GOR006407685
ISBN 13	9780434510290
ISBN 10	0434510297
Title	A Way in the World
Author	V S Naipaul
Condition	Very Good
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	1994-05-16
Number of pages	256
Prizes	Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1996, Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1996
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