商品簡介
In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.
作者簡介
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 30 books of fiction and nonfiction, including?A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, A Turn in the South,?and a collection of letters,?Between Father and Son. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.