{"product_id":"the-middle-passage-v-s-naipaul-9780375708343","title":"The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence's books on Italy, Greene's on West Africa and Pritchett's on Spain.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul to revisit his native country and record his impressions. In \u003ci\u003eThe Middle Passage, \u003c\/i\u003eNaipaul 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e V. S. Naipaul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375708340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375708343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988137967871,"sku":"9780375708343","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e6c26c33-14cb-434e-b888-8ea0bdff3f04.jpg?v=1683292837","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-middle-passage-v-s-naipaul-9780375708343","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}