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>A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply unfamiliar world.

In between them lies the landscape of an unnamed country, a brutal place reminiscent of Idi Amin&rsquo;s Uganda. This central story is about those who once thought of Africa as liberating, but now find themselves in an increasingly harsher reality.<br><br>Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, <i>In a Free State</i> is one of Nobel Laureate V.

S. Naipaul&rsquo;s many towering literary achievements. It is a story of the desperation and heartbreak we find in those who are displaced and who try, often in vain, to make a home in their new surroundings. Frightening, disquieting and merciless, this is one of Naipaul&rsquo;s greatest novels: fraught but full of pity.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.</b></p>

Format	Häftad
Omfång	256 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Pan Macmillan
Utgivningsdatum	2024-10-03
ISBN	9781035039180