Naipaul, V. S

The author chronicles his journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and discusses how the experience influenced his state of mind.

Willie, the child of a brahmin father and low caste mother, moves to London as an adult where he is able to hide the circumstances of his birth but loses all sense of himself, a fact that becomes clear after he moves to Africa with his mixed-race lover.

A young Indian flees his country to escape the war that has claimed his family and settles in a small town in a newly independent African nation.

Contains a collection of two short novels and eleven pieces of short fiction by Nobel Prize winning author V. S. Naipul, including "The Suffrage of Elvira" and "Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion.".

The Nobel Prize winner Naipaul's first novel traces the ascent of Ganesh Ramsumair, a former schoolteacher and village masseur, to one of the most popular politicians of his day in Trinidad.

After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.

Discusses India's history and civilization and examines some of the current concerns and problems of that ancient land.