In a Free State

Name: In a Free State
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN: 9781529050752

V. S. Naipaul

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In a Free State

V. S. Naipaul

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#540 of 8,085 books · #293 in Fiction

Won the Booker Prize (1971).

In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. 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 place reminiscent of Idi Amin's Uganda. This central story is about those who once thought of Africa as liberating, but now find themselves in an increasingly harsher reality. It is a story of the desperation and heartbreak we find in those who are displaced and who try, often in vain, to make a home in their new surroundings. Frightening, disquieting and merciless, this is one of Naipaul's greatest novels: fraught but full of pity.

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