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...