{"title":"V. S. Naipaul","description":"V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.","products":[{"product_id":"guerrillas-paperback","title":"Guerrillas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A brilliant novel in every way.... [It] shimmers with artistic certainty.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet on a troubled Carribbean island, where \"everybody wants to fight his own little war,\" where \"everyone is a guerrilla,\" the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island - subdued now, almost withdrawn - to work and to help. Soon his English mistress arrives: casually nihilistic, bored, quickly enticed - excited - by fantasies of native power and sexuality, and blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her acts. At once Roche and Jane are drawn into fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed, a man driven by his own raging fantasies of power, of perverse sensuality, and of the England he half remembers, half sentimentalizes. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101841854687,"sku":"9780679731740","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qaAfhjzwqT9780679731740.webp?v=1781075743"},{"product_id":"a-way-in-the-world-paperback","title":"A Way in the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Nobel Prize-winning author--and \"one of literature's great travelers\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)--spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Dickensian ... a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum--that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp--which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction. Returning to the autobiographical mode he so brilliantly explored in \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e, and writing here in the classic form of linked narrations, Naipaul constructs a story of remarkable resonance and power, remembrance and invention.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIt is the story of a writer's lifelong journey towards an understanding of both the simple stuff of inheritance -- language, character, family history -- and the long interwoven strands of a deeply complicated historical past: \"things barely remembered, things released only by the act of writing.\" What he writes -- and what his release of memory enables us to see -- is a series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh's final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary. Each episode is viewed through the clarifying lens of the narrator's own post-colonial experience as a Trinidadian of Indian descent who, during the twilight of the Empire, immigrates to England, reinventing himself in order to escape the very history he is intent upon telling.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, \"one of literature's great travelers\" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. \"Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.\"--New York Times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103764091103,"sku":"9780679761662","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/zH4zzC88o49780679761662.webp?v=1781097580"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/v-s-naipaul.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}