{"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341404131715,"sku":"9780307594020","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780307594020.jpg?v=1786147028","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/collected-short-fiction-of-v-s-naipaul-9780307594020","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}