V.S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books ... [... more]
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After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
 From Amazon.com: In After Empire, author Michael Gorra examines the issues of national identity and ethnicity as they pertain to the post-colonial novels about and out of India. While he touches briefly on earlier chroniclers of the Raj such as Rudyard [... more]
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V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction and the recipient of numerous honours, including the Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971, and a knighthood for services to ... [... more]
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The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
From Amazon.com: In Martin Amis's War Against Cliché, a selection of critical essays and reviews published between 1971 and 2000, he establishes himself as one of the fiercest critics and commentators on the literature and culture of the late 20th [... more]
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The Glass Palace: A Novel
From Amazon.co.uk: Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument to [... more]
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Reading and Writing: A Personal Account
The author as an enigma: I was introduced to V.S. Naipaul a number of years ago principally through his non-fiction. He is an elegant writer with unique perspective and insights. Although his unusual background is well-known to his audience, the first [... more]
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Dis-moi qui tuer
Author: V.S. Naipaul Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 828'.914 EAN: 9782226018496 ISBN: 2226018492 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: 1985-12-01 [... more]
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Anils Ghost: 2 Cassettes, 3 Hours
From Amazon.com: In his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje explored the nature of love and betrayal in wartime. His fourth, Anil's Ghost, is also set during a war, but unlike in World War II, the enemy is difficult to [... more]
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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
Author: V.S. Naipaul Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780307396938 ISBN: 0307396932 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2008-04-29 Release Date: 2008-04-29 [... more]
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Allah O Akbar
Reinforcing negative stereotypes.: The apparent contempt that the author has for his subject, Islam and the Muslim world, makes this an unfortunately one-dimensional book, lacking in both insight and sensitivity. Through his highly subjective choice of [... more]
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Home and Exile
From Amazon.com: Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his [... more]
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The Picador Book of Chricket
A Delightful Anthology of Cricket Writing: This book is a rare delight to cricket lovers, coming as it does amidst a slew of inferior, thrashy books clearly designed to cash in on the almost religious fervor displayed by cricket fans from the Indian Sub- [... more]
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