In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature With the ever-growing popularity of

With the ever-growing popularity of mythological retellings

The world she creates is suffused with surreal images and uncanny incidents

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

the air had been thick with sexual tension

this is for anyone who has ever gone outside and wondered what is that

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature With the ever-growing popularity ofWinner 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