In a Free State A Novel By: V. S. Naipaul Publisher: Vintage Print ISBN: 9781400030552, 1400030552 eText ISBN: 9780307789327, 0307789322 Format: EPUB Available from $ 11.99 USD SKU: 9780307789327 For Sale in US* Only No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people—Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife”—are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best. SKU: 9781400030552 Ebooks here: https://ebookscoffee.sellpass.io/products/In-a-Free-State
