The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited by Naipaul, V. S.

The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375708343)

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The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited by Naipaul, V. S.

The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

$16.00
The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited by Naipaul, V. S.

The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a classic of modern travel writing--a deft portrait of Trinidad and the four adjacent Caribbean societies still haunted by the legacies of slavery and colonialism.

"Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence's books on Italy, Greene's on West Africa and Pritchett's on Spain." --New Statesman

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart's appearance with cries of "That is man!" He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France's routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region's colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.

Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 0375708340
ISBN-13: 9780375708343
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2002
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By V. S. Naipaul
By V. S. Naipaul
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V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.

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