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  Collected Short Fiction (Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)) (Hardback) By (author) V S Naipaul

  

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  Short Description for Collected Short FictionOffers insight into the author's range and creative process, in a treasury that includes pieces from such classics as "Miguel Street" and "In a Free State."
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  • Publisher: EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
  • Published: 12 April 2011
  • Format: Hardback 409 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780307594020 ISBN 10: 0307594025
  • Sales rank: 310,631

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Full description for Collected Short Fiction

• For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award-winning "Miguel Street, " in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad's capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales "in A Flag on the Island, "meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize- winning "In a Free State, " an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.