V. S. Naipaul : A way in the world : a sequence
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V. S. Naipaulin teos A way in the world : a sequence on moniulotteinen kuvaus yksilöistä historian virrassa, liittäen yhteen aikakausia ja mantereita. Romaani tuo esiin kerroksellisen näkökulman niin 1500-luvun tutkimusmatkoista kirjalliseen Lontooseen kuin Afrikan tapahtumiin.
'HIS OWN MODERN LABOUR OF LOVE, LOSS AND DISQUIET, THIS REALLY IS A BOOK TO TREASURE'
MALCOLM BRADBURY, SUNDAY EXPRESS
In his first fiction for seven years, V. S. Naipaul ranges across the centuries and the oceans, re-creating Walter Raleigh's doomed expedition to the Orinoco, the down-at-heel literary London of the 1950s, Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America. Opening in Port of Spain with Leonard Side, a mortician and decorator of cakes, and closing with a brutal murder in Africa, A Way in the World is an extraordinary, multi-layered portrait of individuals caught in the slip-stream of history.
'Everyone in this book is involved in a grave, beautiful, tragic dance ... Naipaul is one of the finest writers working today and this large, various and artful book is among his best'
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Times
'Characters, ideas, events from his past are elegantly juggled, set down and picked up again with a technical brilliance that comes from a lifetime's experience'
Caryl Phillips, New Republic
'It takes only one paragraph of this book to see that Naipaul is at the peak of his ability: a man of profound insight and yet peculiarly charming, evocative (and deceptively simple)'
Cressida Connolly, Tatler
MALCOLM BRADBURY, SUNDAY EXPRESS
In his first fiction for seven years, V. S. Naipaul ranges across the centuries and the oceans, re-creating Walter Raleigh's doomed expedition to the Orinoco, the down-at-heel literary London of the 1950s, Miranda's disastrous invasion of South America. Opening in Port of Spain with Leonard Side, a mortician and decorator of cakes, and closing with a brutal murder in Africa, A Way in the World is an extraordinary, multi-layered portrait of individuals caught in the slip-stream of history.
'Everyone in this book is involved in a grave, beautiful, tragic dance ... Naipaul is one of the finest writers working today and this large, various and artful book is among his best'
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Times
'Characters, ideas, events from his past are elegantly juggled, set down and picked up again with a technical brilliance that comes from a lifetime's experience'
Caryl Phillips, New Republic
'It takes only one paragraph of this book to see that Naipaul is at the peak of his ability: a man of profound insight and yet peculiarly charming, evocative (and deceptively simple)'
Cressida Connolly, Tatler
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| Author | V. S. Naipaul |
| Title | A way in the world : a sequence |
| SKU | P-A-WA-8AF271 |