In a Free State
03 October 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply unfamiliar world. In between them lies the landscape of an unnamed country, a brutal...
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03 October 2024256 pages
9781035039180Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experienceDennis Potter, The Times
Naipaul's travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the centuryMartin Amis
