{"title":"V. S. Naipaul","description":"\u003cp\u003eShop books by \u003cstrong\u003eV. S. Naipaul\u003c\/strong\u003e at Readers Warehouse. Reader favourites include \u003cem\u003eA House for Mr Biswas\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Way in the World A Sequence\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmong the Believers\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse every V. S. Naipaul book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780330522984","title":"A Writer's People Ways of Looking and Feeling","description":"Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer's People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers.\n \n For the 'serious traveller', one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author's purpose, then, 'is not literary criticism or biography', but only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul's own father); the culture of school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32040252538995,"sku":"9780330522984","price":314.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/a-writer-s-people-v-s-naipaul-15627439407219.jpg?v=1637106300"},{"product_id":"9780330523004","title":"Miguel Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eMiguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during World War Two and is narrated by an unnamed, precociously observant neighbourhood boy. We are introduced to a galaxy of characters, from Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build `the wild thing without a name', to Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big-Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAs well as the lovely Mrs Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. V. S. 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Naipaul offers a personal choice of examples of Spanish and British imperial history in the Caribbean, including an imagined vision of Raleigh's last expedition and an introduction to Francisco de Miranda, a would-be liberator and precursor to Bolívar, which are placed within a context of echoing modernity and framed by two more personal, heavily autobiographical sections sketching the narrator - an eloquent yet humble man of Indian descent who grew up in Trinidad but spent much of his adult life in England and Africa.\n \n Meditative and dramatic, these historical reconstructions, imbued with Naipaul's acute perception, drawn with his deft and sensitive touch, and told in his beautifully wrought prose, are transmuted into an astonishing novel exploring the profound and mysterious effect of history on the individual.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357788225651,"sku":"9780330522885","price":238.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/a-way-in-the-world-v-s-naipaul-28231040794739.jpg?v=1637105217"},{"product_id":"9780330522977","title":"Literary Occasions Essays","description":"A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul's previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.\n \n In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of the written word and of fiction in particular. Here are his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture, 'Two Worlds'.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39357788258419,"sku":"9780330522977","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/literary-occasions-books-28231041155187.jpg?v=1637629558"},{"product_id":"9781529013047","title":"The Enigma of Arrival","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finding himself as a writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. 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But years of revolutionary campaigns and then prison convince him that the revolution 'had nothing to do with what we were fighting for', and he feels himself further than ever 'from his own history'.\n \n When he returns to Britain where, thirty years before, his wanderings began, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history. He endures the indignities of a culture dissipated by reform and compromise until, in a moment of grotesque revelation - a tour de force of parodic savagery from our most visionary of writers - Willie comes to an understanding that might finally allow him to release his true self.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45358987804787,"sku":"9781035061051","price":271.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/14131273482556.jpg?v=1788884286"},{"product_id":"9781035039258","title":"A Bend in the River","description":"Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself, moving to an unnamed country in the heart of the continent, he believes he is doing so to fulfil his duty as a man. He buys a small shop in a sleepy town, at a bend in the river, where he sells sundries to the locals.\n \n First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of independence. Serving as a microcosm of this changing world, his bend in the river is a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. 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