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In a Free State

Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback

In a Free State

Af: V.S. Naipaul Engelsk Paperback
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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fictional country somewhere like Uganda or Rwanda.

The novel''s central characters once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive – the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage – we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul’s greatest novels, hard but full of pity.

This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else’s land and the attendant heartache.

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Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is. Then the central novel moves to Africa, to a fictional country somewhere like Uganda or Rwanda.

The novel''s central characters once found Africa liberating, but now it has gone sour on them. The land is no longer safe, and at a time of tribal conflict they have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound. At the end of this drive – the narrative tight, wonderfully constructed, the formal and precise language always instilled with violence and rage – we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it. This is one of V. S. Naipaul’s greatest novels, hard but full of pity.

This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else’s land and the attendant heartache.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9780330524803
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0330524801
Kategori: London, Greater London
Udg. Dato: 19 aug 2011
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 137mm
Højde: 172mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 19 aug 2011
Forfatter(e): V.S. Naipaul
Forfatter(e) V.S. Naipaul

Kategori London, Greater London

ISBN-13 9780330524803

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 17mm

Bredde 137mm

Højde 172mm

Udg. Dato 19 aug 2011

Oplagsdato 19 aug 2011

Forlag Pan Macmillan

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