In a Free State (häftad, eng)

<p><b>Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. </b><br><br><i>In a Free State</i> 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. <br><br>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. <br><br>This is a story about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else’s land and the attendant heartache.</p>

Format	Häftad
Omfång	256 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Pan Macmillan
Utgivningsdatum	2011-08-19
ISBN	9780330524803