Naipaul, V. S

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.

Ralph Singh, born of Indian heritage, raised on a British island in the Caribbean, and educated in England,retreats to London to write his memoirs, but is drawn back to Isabella where his involvement in the political atmosphere helps him sort out the struggles of his past.

In his early forties, Willie Chandran joins an underground movement in India, but seven years of revolutionary campaigns--and several years in jail--convince him to return to England.

A young boy observes the experiences of his neighbors on Miguel Street, a slum in Trinidad's capital, during World War II.

An autobiography of the fictional Trinidadian title character, who struggles to rid himself of the influence of his wife's relatives and finally does so by buying a house, and his freedom, in one stroke.