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Andre Deutsch, 1971. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on slip affixed to title page. Minor foxing on endpapers & page ridges, front dust jacket flap corner clipped, jacket toned but looks nice under mylar. Binding tight, text clean & unmarked. 256 pages. "This grouping of two short stories, a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals, is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Kt. TC (born August 17, 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire. Naipaul was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He is the son, older brother, uncle, and cousin of published authors Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Neil Bissoondath, and Vahni Capildeo, respectively. His current wife is Nadira Naipaul, a former journalist." -- Wikipedia. Bookseller reference : 1501957 |
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BETWEEN FATHER AND SON: FAMILY LETTERS. RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1999 As New/As New 1999 First American Edition Hardcover 6.5" x 9.5" Tall 0375407308 V. S. Naipaul is perhaps the most famous emigre' writer since Vladimir Nabokov. In 1949, at age 17, Naipaul left Trinidad for Oxford University and pursued his love of writing. His father, longing to maintain a close relationship with his son, asked him to write letters so he could collect them and compile a book of them. The collection covers the period between Naipaul's departure from his native Trinidad in 1950 to study at Oxford to the untimely death of his father in 1953 at the age of 47. For V. S. Naipaul fans and particularly for future biographers and scholars, the correspondence is a treasure. This first american edition is a hardcover in excellent condition and has no remaindered marks. 297 pages. includes a bibliography of published works and an index. NAIPAUL FATHER SON LETTERS |
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BETWEEN FATHER AND SON: FAMILY LETTERS. RANDOM HOUSE NEW YORK, NEW YORK 1999 As New/As New 1999 First American Edition Hardcover 6.5" x 9.5" Tall 0375407308 V. S. Naipaul is perhaps the most famous emigre' writer since Vladimir Nabokov. In 1949, at age 17, Naipaul left Trinidad for Oxford University and pursued his love of writing. His father, longing to maintain a close relationship with his son, asked him to write letters so he could collect them and compile a book of them. The collection covers the period between Naipaul's departure from his native Trinidad in 1950 to study at Oxford to the untimely death of his father in 1953 at the age of 47. For V. S. Naipaul fans and particularly for future biographers and scholars, the correspondence is a treasure. This first american edition is a hardcover in excellent condition and has no remaindered marks. 297 pages. includes a bibliography of published works and an index. NAIPAUL FATHER SON LETTERS |
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Berlin: Claassen, 2005. 333 S. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag. Vom Vorbesitzer mit Mängelstempel auf Fußschnitt erworben. - Was bedeutet es, in einer ehemaligen Kolonie zu leben? Und wie lebt es sich als Kind von Einwanderern fernab der Heimat? Diese Fragen bewegen V. S. Naipaul seit jeher, sie bestimmen auch sein Interesse für den afrikanischen Kontinent. Eine Reise in verborgene Welten. Als Sohn indischer Eltern wuchs V. S. Naipaul in Trinidad auf, einer ehemaligen britischen Kolonie. Diese komplexe Herkunft und das daraus resultierende Gefühl der Heimatlosigkeit führen Naipaul auf immer neue Reisen. Dabei stellt er stets die alles entscheidende Frage nach der Identität. Welche Spuren hat die Kolonialgeschichte in den betroffenen Regionen und in den Menschen, die dort leben, hinterlassen? Antworten auf seine drängenden Fragen fand Naipaul auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent sowie in den Ländern, in denen heute die Nachfahren afrikanischer Sklaven leben: Jamaika, Trinidad und Mauritius. Seine Essays zeichnen sich durch eine große Nähe zu den Menschen aus, denen er auf seinen Reisen begegnete. Sei es in Trinidad dem uns unbekannten Malik und seiner Black Liberation Army oder aber auch General Mobuto im Kongo. ISBN 9783546003926 Bookseller reference : 30886 
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Franklin Center, Penn. USA, The Franklin Library. 1989, Limited First Edition. Hardcover. A beautiful, fine copy of the Limited First Edition, published simultaneously with the first trade edition, signed by the author in blue ink on the second free endpaper. Bound in full brown leather with three raised bands on spine and elaborate gold and red decoration on front, spine, and rear; all edges pristine gilt, marbeled endpapers; double-page colour frontispiece painting by Bart Forbes; two-page "special messge" by Naipaul exclusive to the Franklin edition; printed on thick, creamy, acid-free paper; 307 pages. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories." A beautiful copy, suitable as a gift or award! Time magazine wrote: In a departure from his previous works, Naipaul said of 'A Turn in the South," "I was not interested in what I thought; I was interested in what the people thought." Naipaul roamed the old Confederacy talking to black intellectuals, redneck philosophers, white-collar workers and auto-factory hands now employed by the Japanese. The result is a book of scenes and voices and, of course, a layering of past and present. The South's agricultural and religious roots, its history of slavery, and the evolution of its race relations and economy are played off against the comments of people trying to understand the small parts of what Naipaul eventually conveys as a whole: a region of America that is like an emerging nation within a nation. Fine. Signed by Author. Bookseller reference : 801004 
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India - A Wounded Civilization 1979, Penguin Paperback Condition Very Good. Notes Paperback. Contents In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India's manifold complexities. (Originally £8.99) ISBN: 0140048316. Bookseller reference : 120269 ISBN : 0140048316 |
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I COCCODRILLI DI YAMOUSSOUKRO. ADELPHI 2004 Nessuno sa quale potra' essere l'aspetto finale della strana creatura architettonica concepita dal presidente della Costa d'Avorio su istigazione di un misterioso progettista, non estraneo alle pratiche magiche tribali. E quando Naipaul riesce finalmente a raggiungere l'area, si trova davanti un paesaggio che agisce su di lui come un'allucinazione: un paio di alberghi internazionali, una moschea, un troncone di autostrada che finisce nel nulla, e sullo sfondo l'abbacinante verde smeraldo di un campo da golf miracolosamente preservato dalla polvere ocra che, a quelle latitudini, ricopre ogni cosa. Su tutto domina il palazzo del presidente, circondato da mura altissime e da un lago popolato di coccodrilli - cui un inserviente in uniforme provvede a fornire, secondo una ritualita' oscura, un congruo numero di animali vivi (e non manca il sospetto che venga aggiunto occasionalmente qualche essere umano). In questo libro Naipaul ha voluto riunire i due poli dell'estraneita' piu' ominosa e dell'intimita' piu' dolorante. Cosi' nel 'racconto vero' che apre il volume ci viene mostrata l'immagine da cui ha avuto un traumatico inizio, in Naipaul, il conflitto che lo ha opposto, attraverso successive elaborazioni, al suo retaggio indiano. E non sara' facile neppure per chi legge fissare a lungo la smorfia folle di Naipaul padre, paragone del giornalismo laico e progressista di Trinidad, mentre viene costretto all'atto destinato a guastargli la vita e il lavoro: sollevare sulla testa i brandelli sanguinolenti della capra sgozzata da lui stesso durante un rito sacrificale in onore della dea Kali'. volume in Italiano EAN: 9788845918490 Bookseller reference : 978884591849 
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New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 2001. (ISBN: 0375407375) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "2nd printing before publication." (alk. paper) 211 pp.; 22 cm. AS NEW. West Indian writer from Trinidad, now resides in England. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. "One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste - a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer - strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her - carried along, really - to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man's determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, 'Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.' A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. / 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 of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. Bookseller reference : AIM_1701724947 ISBN : 0375407375 |
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Thorndike, ME, Center Point Publishing. 2002, Large Print Edition. (ISBN: 1740306856) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. AS NEW. West Indian writer from Trinidad, now resides in England. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. "One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste - a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer - strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her - carried along, really - to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man's determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, 'Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.' A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. / 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 of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. Bookseller reference : 001586 ISBN : 1740306856 |
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New York, Vintage Books; Vintage International Ser. 2002, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 037570728X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 211 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean text. Back cover slightly soiled. First printing, October 2002. Another copy available. West Indian writer from Trinidad, now resides in England. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. "One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste - a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer - strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her - carried along, really - to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man's determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, 'Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.' A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. / 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 of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Very Good. Bookseller reference : 031803 ISBN : 037570728X |
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New York, Vintage Books; Vintage International Ser. 2002, First edition thus. (ISBN: 037570728X) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 211 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First printing, October 2002. West Indian writer from Trinidad, now resides in England. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. "One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste - a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer - strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her - carried along, really - to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man's determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, 'Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.' A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. / 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 of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. He lives in Wiltshire, England." - Publisher. Fine. Bookseller reference : 004308 ISBN : 037570728X |
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De avonturen van Gurudeva. Met een voorwoord van V.S. Naipaul. Vertaald door Marianne Verhaert. Amsterdam/Antwerpen, Atlas, 1996. In-8, 158 pp., paperback. Goed exemplaar. Met woordenlijst. Charmant werkje van de vader van Nobelprijswinnaar V.S. Naipaul. Bookseller reference : 15723 |
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La Perte De L'eldorado - Une Histoire Traduit de l'Anglais par Philippe Delamre. Editeur : Plon. Collection : Feux Croisés. Parution : Octobre 1996. IN-8° (22.50 x 14.00 x 2.30 ). Broché, couverture illustrée. Nombre de pages : 344. Rousseurs sur les tranches et sur la page de garde sinon bel exemplaire. Résumé : Trinidad, île des Caraïbes occupée par les Espagnols en 1552 et conquise par les Anglais en 1797, a-t-elle jamais existé par elle-même ? Elle fut avant tout la porte ouverte vers l'Eldorado, terre mythique couverte disait-on, de mines d'or, que l'Espagnol Antonio de Berrio et l'Anglais Sir Walter Raleigh tentèrent d'atteindre dans des expéditions hasardeuses où ne comptaient ni les vies sacrifiées, ni les années passées, ni l'argent dilapidé. C'est donc l'Histoire que l'on trouve au coeur de cet ouvrage remarquable. Les personnages historiques-complexes à la fois par leurs rêves, leurs ambitions, leur réalité souvent brutale, leurs fantasmes cupides et cruels sont recréés ici par un des plus grands écrivains de notre temps. Rien n'est simple, rien n'est facile dans ce monde que V.S. Naipaul réinvente pour nous, sauf la narration elle-même : limpide et claire, elle est menée de la main d'un maître conteur qui offre ici sa vision unique d'une société esclavagiste. A propos de l'auteur : V.S Naipaul, né à Trinidad en 1932, établi en Angleterre depuis 1950, est l'auteur d'une vingtaine d'ouvrages traduits dans le monde entier, parmi lesquels Guerilleros, L'.nigme de l'arrivée, L'Inde, Un chemin dans le monde. 2259027423 Bookseller reference : 2179 |
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Paris, Au Siège de la Rédaction, 1992. Contient aussi : Critiques : Julien Green, par Viviane Forrester. V.S. Naipaul, par Marc Kravetz. Entretien , Elisabeth Badinter, enquêtes sur l'identité, propos recueillis par Paul Loubière. 1 fascicule in-4, broché. Bon état. Bookseller reference : 33946 |
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Paris, Gallimard, 1981. Revue d'Histoire, de politique et de société. Contient aussi : Et la planète, bordel !, par Régis Debray (9 pages). Etudes : Sur les outils de la démographie. Histoire secrète de la fécondité, par Hervé Le Bras (25 pages). Prévision et projection. L'imaginaire des grands modèles démo-économiques, par Jean-Claude Chesnais (11 pages). Bibliothèques : Milieu, personne, personnalité. Perspectives japonaises, par Augustin Berque (8 pages). Mémoires politiques arabes, par Elie Kedourie (19 pages). Livre-Montage : Histoire de la vie quotidienne des Français (1782), par Pierre J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy, Présenté par André Burguière (21 pages). 1 fascicule in-8, (18,5X26cm),160 pp., broché. Bon état. Bookseller reference : 339540 ISBN : 8910 |
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Letters Between Father and Son Correspondence between Naipaul and his father from 1950 when Naipaul left Trinidad until his father's death in 1953. Naipaul recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lovely unmarked copy. Bookseller reference : 003743 ISBN : 0316639885 |
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London, Andre Deutsch. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0233958320) Binding - Hard Cover, Small Octavo - 205mm (8") Tall. A clean, firm, healthy, tightly bound hardback copy in a slightly edgeworn and price-clipped d/j. Light dust induced marks on edges, corners very lightly bumped. Prompt response to requests for more information or for digital images is guaranteed. This now very scarce book won the Booker Prize in 1971 - Naipaul was was also the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 2001. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born from Indian Parents in 1932 in Trinidad, West Indies. Oxford educated, he had written his first novel at 18, which was rejected by publisher. Since 1950 Naipaul lived mostly in England, but he travelled intensively - most of his writings, including this novel, set in a free state in Africa at a time of civil conflict, which is also a part documentary, are inspired by his travels. Very Good/Very Good. Bookseller reference : 0212496 ISBN : 0233958320 |
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London, United Kingdom, Macmillan Audio Books. 2001. (ISBN: 0333907752) Boxed, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. AUDIO BOOK - 2 casette tapes. V. S. Naipaul's first novel - funny, endlessly inventive and brilliantly imagined The Mystic Masseur traces the story of Ganesh who, at the beginning of the novel is a struggling masseur when, as the narrator puts it, 'masseurs were ten a penny in Trinidad'. From failed primary school teacher and masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE, his is a journey memorable for its hilarious and bewildering success. Naipaul's clarity of style, humorous touch and powerful characterisation are all in evidence in this first book. This is an ideal beginning to readers new to Naipaul's writing. Read by Sam Dastor. New/New. Bookseller reference : 006584 ISBN : 0333907752 |
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Letters Between Father and Son London, Little Brown. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316639885) Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Correspondence between Naipaul and his father from 1950 when Naipaul left Trinidad until his father's death in 1953. Naipaul recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lovely unmarked copy. As New/As New. Bookseller reference : 003743 ISBN : 0316639885 |
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Reading & Writing: A Personal Account New York, New York Review of Books. 2000. (ISBN: 0940322382) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "'I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition.' But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English novels he read. In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose. Naipaul's profound reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentieth - a task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. Bookseller reference : 024358 ISBN : 0940322382 |
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New York, Vintage Books; Vintage International. 1989, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0679722025) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 278 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In this 'brilliant novel' (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. / V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write, and has since published over twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, and The Enigma of Arrival." - Publisher. Fine. Bookseller reference : 037123 ISBN : 0679722025 |
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Amsterdam, Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers, 1993. Paperback 22x14. 1e druk. 268 blz. Met buikbandje. Vertaald uit het Engels door Tinke Davids. In de jaren zestig maakte V.S. Naipaul een reis door het Caribische gebied. In dit persoonlijk gekleurde reisverslag beschrijft hij het politieke, sociale en culturele leven van de eilanden en vasteland (met een apart hoofdstuk van 32 blz. over Suriname) en duikt hij onder in de geschiedenis van het Caribisch gebied. V.S. Naipaul is in dertig jaar uitgegroeid tot een van de belangrijkste Engelsschrijvende auteurs ter wereld. Naipaul is een ietwat 'elitair' reizer: hij beschouwt de situatie van de Caribische eilanden vanuit een intellectueel standpunt. Daardoor heeft het boek af en toe iets 'docerends', hoewel dit ruimschoots wordt goedgemaakt door de feilloze portretten van individuen en culturen en de fijne humor.. Bookseller reference : B5416 |
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Amsterdam, Uitgeverij de Arbeiderspers, 1982. Paperback 20x13. 2e druk. 274 blz. Vertaald uit het Engels door Guido Golüke. V.S. Naipaul heeft met het in 1975 verschenen 'Guerrilla' de sleutelroman geschreven over de sociale en politieke ontwikkelingen van de post-koloniale periode in het Caraïbische gebied. Naipaul, zelf afkomstig uit Trinidad, beschouwt het boek als zijn meest geslaagde literaire verbeelding van de politieke problematiek in de derde wereld. 'Guerrilla' maakt op beklemmende wijze duidelijk waarop een in romantische demagogie ontaard revolutionarisme uit kan draaien. De hoofdfiguur in dit boek, James Ahmed, is door Naipaul gebaseerd op de persoon van Michael Abdoel Malik, beter bekend als Michael X, over wie hij heeft geschreven in 'De terugkeer van Eva Péron'. In 'Guerrilla' is James Ahmed de man van wie wordt aangenomen dat hij bezig is een imposant politiek ideaal te realiseren in een land met een afschuwwekkend verleden en een chaotisch heden. Het eiland staat aan de vooravond van een beslissende crisis. De kranten staan vol berichten over de vrijwel met zekerheid te voorspellen triomf van de zogenaamde guerrillastrijders in de heuvels. Op het moment dat Ahmed meent een leidende rol in de 'revolutie' te moeten gaan spelen, stort het wereldje van de semi-progressieve bourgeois in een poel van bloed en verkrachting.. Bookseller reference : B6439 |
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Between Father and Son: Family Letters New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0375407308. 8vo. An attractive copy of this First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, this one SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the front flyleaf; After leaving his homeland of Trinidad at the age of 17 to pursue an education at Oxford, "Vido" Naipaul carried on a faithful correspondence with his father for four years. Father and son candidly conversed about life, loneliness and hardships, and they encouraged each other to persevere with their writing. Seepersand Naipaul's aspirations went unrealized, but Vido's triumphant career vindicates his father's sacrifice. Fine in Fine dust jacket; Signed by Author . Bookseller reference : 14519 ISBN : 0375407308 
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Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. Limited/Numbered Edition. Cloth. 8vo. A most handsome Limited Numbered First Edition in Very Fine condition SIGNED and numbered by author and Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul directly on the Limitations page. Bound in red and black patterned cloth, this copy is number 7of 300 numbered copies (330 copies total in this Limited Edition: 26 are lettered and 4 bear the printed name of a recipient. ) ; This diary served as the basis of Naipaul's masterpiece, A Bend in the River, which is the story of an Indian, uprooted by war, who has come to live in an isolated town along a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us a most convincing and disturbing view of a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. Fine+; Signed by Author . Bookseller reference : 14602 
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