In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times") V.S. Naipaultakes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprootedby the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in anisolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independentAfrican nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbingvision yet of what happens in a place caught between thedangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past andtraditions.
【作者简介】
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author ofthirteen works of fiction, including A House for Mr Biswas, TheMystic Masseur and The Enigma of Arrival, and ten books ofnon-fiction including An Area of Darkness and Among the Believers.He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize,the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awardedthe first David Cohen British Literature Award. His new novel, HalfA Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he wasawarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
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