In a Free State
19 August 2011Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.
In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels he has ceased to be a part of the flow. Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for...
Details
19 August 2011256 pages
9780330524803Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A book of such lucid complexity and such genuine insight, so deft and deep, that it somehow manages to agitate, charm, amuse and excuse the reader all at the same pitch of experienceDennis Potter, The Times
Naipaul's travel writing is perhaps the most important body of work of its kind in the second half of the centuryMartin Amis
