The Chip-Chip Gatherers
Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, was winner of the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a...
Efter kolonialväldet: Två romaner om en övergiven värld, E-bok
Nobelpristagaren V. S. Naipauls främsta romaner i vacker samlingsvolym Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in sig i den inflytelserika familjen Tulsi, men får inte del av familjens status, utan blir snarast mer hunsad. Hans mål i livet blir till sist att äga sitt eget hus. I Vid flodens krök [1979] fortsätter Naipaul sin illusionslösa skildring av den postkoloniala världen: Salim kommer från en gammal indisk köpmanssläkt. Han slår sig ner i ett icke namngivet afrikanskt land, i en icke namngiven stad vid flodens krök. Där får han på nära hålla uppleva vad som blir kvar när det forna kolonialväldet rämnar. Efter kolonialväldet samlar dessa två romaner vilka räknas till Naipauls allra främsta i en volym. I svensk översättning av Carl Sundell respektive Else Lundgren, med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och litteraturvetaren Stefan Helgesson. V. S. NAIPAUL [1932-2018] var en brittisk författare, född på Trinidad och Tobago. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 »för att ha förenat lyhört berättande och omutlig iakttagelse i verk som dömer oss att se den bortträngda historiens närvaro«. »Knappast någon annan samtida författare kan tävla med V. S. Naipaul.« New York Times Book Review
Efter Kolonialväldet - Två Romaner Om En Övergiven Värld
Nobelpristagaren V S Naipauls främsta romaner i vacker samlingsvolymRomanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in sig i den inflytelserika familjen Tulsi, men får inte del av familjens status, utan blir snarast mer hunsad. Hans mål i livet blir till sist att äga sitt eget hus. I Vid flodens krök [1979] fortsätter Naipaul sin illusionslösa skildring av den postkoloniala världen: Salim kommer från en gammal indisk köpmanssläkt. Han slår sig ner i ett icke namngivet afrikanskt land, i en icke namngiven stad vid flodens krök. Där får han på nära hålla uppleva vad som blir kvar när det forna kolonialväldet rämnar. Efter kolonialväldet samlar dessa två romaner vilka räknas till Naipauls allra främsta i en volym. I svensk översättning av Carl Sundell respektive Else Lundgren, med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och litteraturvetaren Stefan Helgesson. V.S. NAIPAUL [1932-2018] var en brittisk författare, född på Trinidad och Tobago. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 »för att ha förenat lyhört berättande och omutlig iakttagelse i verk som dömer oss att se den bortträngda historiens närvaro«.»Knappast någon annan samtida författare kan tävla med V. S. Naipaul.« | New York Times Book Review
Om Efter kolonialväldet av V. S. Naipaul, E-bok
Stefan Helgessons förord till samlingsvolymen Efter kolonialväldet av V. S. Naipaul. Om Efter kolonialväldet: Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in sig i den inflytelserika familjen Tulsi, men får inte del av familjens status, utan blir snarast mer hunsad. Hans mål i livet blir till sist att äga sitt eget hus. I Vid flodens krök [1979] fortsätter Naipaul sin illusionslösa skildring av den postkoloniala världen: Salim kommer från en gammal indisk köpmanssläkt. Han slår sig ner i ett icke namngivet afrikanskt land, i en icke namngiven stad vid flodens krök. Där får han på nära hålla uppleva vad som blir kvar när det forna kolonialväldet rämnar.
The Masque of Africa
Moving beyond travelogue, V. S. Naipaul's The Masque of Africa considers the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of African civilization. Beginning in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, Naipaul’s journey takes in Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and ends, as the country does, in South Africa. Focusing upon the theme of belief – though sometimes the political or economical realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account – Naipaul examines the fragile but enduring quality of the old world of magic. To witness the ubiquity of such ancient ritual, to be given some idea of its power, was to be taken far back to the beginning of things. To reach that beginning was the purpose of this book. ‘The quality of Naipaul’s writing – simple, concise, engaging – rarely varies . . . Above all, Naipaul’s latest African journey is eyewitness
Turn in the South
A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the ins...
Area of Darkness
The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first vi...
Ett hus åt Mr Biswas, E-bok
“Knappast någon annan samtida författare kan tävla med V.S. Naipaul.” New York Times Book Review Romanen Ett hus åt Mr Biswas [A House for Mr Biswas, 1961] blev V. S. Naipauls stora internationella genombrott. Det är berättelsen om Mohun Biswas, en hinduisk man på Trinidad som vill komma upp sig i världen men mestadels misslyckas. Han gifter in sig i den inflytelserika familjen Tulsi, men får inte del av familjens status, utan blir snarast mer hunsad. Hans mål i livet blir till sist att äga sitt eget hus. I svensk översättning av Carl Sundell. V.S. NAIPAUL (1932-2018) var en brittisk författare, född på Trinidad och Tobago. Han tilldelades Nobelpriset i litteratur år 2001 »för att ha förenat lyhört berättande och omutlig iakttagelse i verk som dömer oss att se den bortträngda historiens närvaro«.
Half a Life
V. S. Naipaul's meditative novel about a stranger in a strange land.
V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer
Offering a survey of the life and work of the 2001 Nobel Laureate for Literature, ""V. S. Naipaul, Man and Writer"" introduces readers to the writer widely viewed as a curmudgeonly novelist who finds special satisfaction in ove...
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OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Found footage horror anthology comprised of short films from a variety of directors bound together by a framing narrative in which a group of burglars break into an isolated house and play the videotapes they find. The directors to contribute the terrifying films on the VHS tapes are David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Joe Swanberg and the four auteurs who comprise Radio Silence, with Adam Wingard directing the sequences that follow the effects of the videos on the burglars who view them. The actors to appear include Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Kentucker Audley, Hannah Fierman and Jas Sams.Typ: Blu-ray
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OBS! Import. Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.Found footage horror anthology comprised of short films from a variety of directors bound together by a framing narrative in which a group of burglars break into an isolated house and play the videotapes they find. The directors to contribute the terrifying films on the VHS tapes are David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Ti West, Joe Swanberg and the four auteurs who comprise Radio Silence, with Adam Wingard directing the sequences that follow the effects of the videos on the burglars who view them. The actors to appear include Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Kentucker Audley, Hannah Fierman and Jas Sams.Typ: DVD
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics w...
Way in the World
A Way in the World is a vastly innovative novel exploring colonial inheritance through a series of narratives that span continents, swing back and forth between past and present and delve into both autobiography and fiction. V. S. Naipaul offers a...
Stet
Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and...
Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and...
Loss of El Dorado
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold; and, two hundred years later, the man-made horr...
Guerrillas
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mist...
The Middle Passage
A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Miguel Street
An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter.
Mimic Men
With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world. Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean islan...
Enigma of Arrival
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding...
In a Free State
Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then...
Bend in the River
A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Afric...
The Masque of Africa
An astonishingly prescient, beautifully written and deeply humane work of non-fiction from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A House for Mr Biswas
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the back...
Writer and the World
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are ...
Area of Darkness
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold ...
Bend in the River
Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country in the heart of the continent, he believes he is doing so to fulfil hi...
Half a Life
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahm...
The Secret of Evil
A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation's political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to reade...
Writer's People
Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers. For the 'serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the wor...
In a Free State
This is one of V. S. Naipaul's greatest novels, hard but full of pity. It won the Booker Prize, in its original edition, in 1971.
Enigma of Arrival
Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding...
