In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature A stunning meditation on how

A stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn the aftermath of catastrophic loss

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The narrative ranges across the whole of the Viking diaspora

She has twice been named the No

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature A stunning meditation on howWinner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. 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 Amins Uganda. This central story is about those who once thought of Africa as liberating, but now