In a Free State - V. S. Naipaul
Language: EnglishKeywords:
1960's
Africa
booker prize
Egypt
England
India
Multiple POVs
Novella
Postcolonial
Short Story Collection
Washington DC
West Indies
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Read by Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
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Unabridged
No writer has rendered our boundary-less, postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife” - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home.
By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In a Free State is Naipaul at his best.
May 8 2018
9 hrs and 4 mins
(This seemed appropriate after posting Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The summary describes the title story, whereas “One out of Many” is a story about an Indian man suffering culture shock when entering the United States during the height of 1960s counterculture, and “Tell Me Who to Kill” is a memory tale of an elder man who emigrated to London in support of his brother.)
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
April 23rd, 2025
Thanks so much, Santobelletrist. 🙏 I love your Naipaul collection. I hope you have more of his non-fiction work—especially his Indian trilogy.
April 28th, 2025
I second the wholehearted gratitude, and shall seed. The remaining Naipaul’s books I’m after are: Turn In the South, Bend In The River, Miguel Street, The Masque of Africa, his 3 books of literary essays. Anything Naipaul and I’m on it like a ton of bricks. I’m on my 2nd reading/listening of all his books!
April 28th, 2025
… and obviously The Loss Of El Dorado!
May 1st, 2025
Also if you happen to have access to Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer — that’s THE ONE audiobook I genuinely want (in fact I’d pay good money for it, but can’t get it, due to troubles with bank). It’s among lesser known of his books, an underrated espionage epic, with similarities to Le Carre. I’d be ENORMOUSLY thankful! In any case, bless you for these gems you dole out to the cheering multitudes.
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