In a Free State (Booker Prize Winner)

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread.

"The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have." -The New York Times Book Review

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.

In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people-Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for...