内容简介
In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times") V.S. Naipaul
takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted
by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an
isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent
African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing
vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the
dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and
traditions.
作者简介
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of
thirteen works of fiction, including A House for Mr Biswas, The
Mystic Masseur and The Enigma of Arrival, and ten books of
non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and Among the Believers.
He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize,
the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded
the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His new novel, Half
A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.