From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes two novels and a collection
of stories that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England
with impressive subtlety and humor.
"The world's writer, a master of language and perception." --*The New
York Times Book Review
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The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul's hilarious take on an electoral
campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates' tactics
include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous
protagonist of Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion is an aging
Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into
upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional
advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a
Chinese bakery in Trinidad--whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy
until he takes a Chinese name--to a rooming house in London--where the
genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars.
Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the
work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with
language.