In a Free State
20 February 2020Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by publisher and acclaimed author Robert McCrum.
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...
Details
20 February 2020272 pages
9781529014051Imprint: 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
