In A Free State: The Novel

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9780330462686
  • : Pan Macmillan
  • : Picador
  • :
  • :
  • : 01 August 2008
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 24.99
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • : books

Special Fields

  • :
  • :
  • : V. S. Naipaul
  • :
  • : Paperback
  • : Revised edition
  • :
  • :
  • : 813
  • : 180
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
  • :
Barcode 9780330462686
9780330462686

Description

The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition

Author description

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.