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A Way in the World

A Novel

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A Way in the World

Written by: V. S. Naipaul
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism.

Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh, who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa.

Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance.

©1994 V. S. Naipaul (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Naipaul has created a well articulated world in this book from the eyes of the sufferer especially displaced persons of African origin and Indian origin or even latin american natives. Often times he has simply narrated in the flow of the rest of the story and background, the most inhumane and gruesome acts and practices of the colonizers while subjugating their subjects in the very lands of the vanquished. His and Simon's easy, without drama unemotional narration of such incidents is the hallmark of his writing style in this book. A must read.

an interesting book for serious read

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While the book had a lot of anecdotes and details over 3 centuries about colonial expansion in South America, I felt the story lacked a theme / connect. It kept moving from one character to other without truly getting into their context within the overall story, more like a collection of essays. Being called a novel, I felt a huge disconnect between this narrative format and my expectation.

Not a novel

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