{"product_id":"collected-short-fiction-of-v-s-naipaul-9780307594020","title":"Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author's stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. - \"Naipaul is the world's writer, a master of language and perception.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eOver 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307594020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.04w x 1.16d","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870669729973,"sku":"9780307594020","price":21.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_4bc065bb-7f09-4af6-88f9-9cd3686c8bae.jpg?v=1733240952","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/collected-short-fiction-of-v-s-naipaul-9780307594020","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}