Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Alla curva del fiume è un romanzo dello scrittore premio Nobel per la letteratura Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, pubblicato nel 1979, in Italia nel 1982 da Rizzoli. Il romanzo fu tra i finalisti del Booker Prize del 1979. Il libro racconta la storia di Salim, africano di origine indo-araba della costa orientale, che …

A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally …

La metà di una vita è un romanzo dello scrittore premio Nobel per la letteratura Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, pubblicato nel 2001, in Italia nel 2002 da Adelphi. Il libro racconta la storia di Willie Somerset Chandran, giovane indiano di stirpe braminica, che decide di fuggire dalla famiglia, alla ricerca di una …

"Among the Believers" is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a …

In uno Stato libero è un romanzo di V. S. Naipaul del 1971. Il romanzo è stato premiato con il Booker Prize. L'opera è costituita da un prologo e un epilogo che racchiude tre diverse storie, l'ultima delle quali intitolata "In uno Stato libero". Le diverse narrazioni riguardano uno stesso tema principale: non viene …

Miguel Street is a collection of linked short stories by V. S. Naipaul set in wartime Trinidad and Tobago. The stories draw on the author's childhood memories of Port of Spain. The street of the title appears to be a fictionalised version of Luis Street where the author lived with his family in the 1940s. As well as …

With an introduction by Harvard professor and author Maya Jasanoff. Taking its title from a work by the surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. It …

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples is a non-fiction book by V. S. Naipaul published by Vintage Books in 1998. It was written as a sequel to Naipaul's Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey. Naipaul draws a distinction between Arab countries and the countries of "converted peoples" where the …

An Area of Darkness is a book written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. The narration is anecdotal and …