Way In The World

Naipaul, V.S.

ISBN 10: 0434510297 / ISBN 13: 9780434510290

Edité par Random House UK, 1997

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Way In The World
• Éditeur: Random House UK
• Date de parution: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0434510297
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780434510290
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Describes the condition of Leonard Side, a mortician in Port of Spain, a Mohammedan of Indian ancestry and "a decorator of cakes and arranger of flowers". V.S. Naipaul was knighted in 1990 for services to literature.

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'His own modern labour of love, loss and disquiet, this really is a book to treasure' - Malcolm Bradbury, Sunday Express

In his first fiction for seven years, V.S. Naipaul ranges across the centuries and the oceans, re-creating Walter Raleigh's doomed expedition to the Orinoco, the down-at-heel literary London of the 1950's, Miranda's disatreous invasion of South America. Opening in Port of Spain with Leonard Side, a mortician and decorator of cakes, and closing with a brutal murder in Africa, A Way in the World is an extraordinary, multi-layered portrait of individuals caught in the slip-stream of history.

'Everyone in this book is involved in a grave, beautiful, tragic dance ... Naipaul is one of the finest writers working today and this large, various and artful book is among his best' - Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Times

'Characters, ideas, events from his past are elegantly juggled, set down and picked up again with a technical brilliance that comes from a life-time's experience' - Caryl Phillips, New Republic

'It takes only one paragraph of this book to see that Naipaul is at the peak of his ability: a man of profound insight and subtlety, writing in charming, evocative (and deceptively simple) prose - Cressida Connolly, Tatler