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Vidiadhar Naipaul

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Por que a criação do Paquistão foi concebida como uma vitória da fé, e não como uma realização política? Como o petróleo e o equipamento militar criaram a ilusão de poder islâmico e alimentaram a revolução no Irã? Como contextualizar a Malásia e a Indonésia no mundo muçulmano? A reflexão sobre essas e outras questões …

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Half a Life is a 2001 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul published by Alfred A. Knopf. The novel is set in India, Africa and Europe. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize.

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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 …

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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and …