The Enigma of Arrival

Informationen zum Autor V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas , The Mimic Men , Guerrillas , A Bend in the River , and The Enigma of Arrival . In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State . His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers , Beyond Belief , The Masque of Africa , and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness , India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now . In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018. Klappentext Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are Zusammenfassung From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature comes a multicultural tale of finding your place in the world.

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V S Naipaul
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9781529013047
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-1304-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 160 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Picador Classic; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; TRAVEL / General, Salisbury, FICTION / Biographical, Wiltshire, Memoirs, India, Travel writing, Trinidad and Tobago, Surrealism, Colonialism & imperialism, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Trinidad & Tobago, Colonialism and imperialism, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction