Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family. Reprint...

In the 'brilliant novel' (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great rive...

This novel by a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature takes us deeply into the life of one man who comes to live in an isolated African town at the bend of a great river, a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world ...

This novel by a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature takes us deeply into the life of one man who comes to live in an isolated African town at the bend of a great river, a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world ...

In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.

The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

HALF A LIFE is not one of Naipaul's major undertakings, but then I don't think it was meant to be. It is intended to give us yet another perspective on his corpus, in which one detail illuminates another....To understand the progressi...

In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel–his first–V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entre...

In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the Ame...

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, 'one of literature's great travelers' (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism....

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.Traveling from the ...

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

In his early forties, Willie Chandran abandons his peripatetic lifestyle with the encouragement of his sister to join an underground movement in India, but seven years of revolutionary campaigns--and several years in jail--convince hi...

In this stunning sequel to 'Half a Life,' the 2001 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature takes listeners into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life, and those who aspire to the frightening...

A magnet to the poets, philosophers, troubadours, and misfits who inhabit Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighborhood melodramas are scrutiniz...

An ambitious and successful novel...it is an extremely perceptive account of the political and cultural situation of a colonial country and of an individual who is produced by that situation...the observations and descriptions - Londo...