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By the end of this drive we know everything about the English characters, the African country and the Idi Amin-like future awaiting it..
There, the central characters have to make the long drive to the safety of their compound.
Then the central novel moves to a fictional African country.
Then of a disturbed Asian West Indian in London who, in jail for murder, has never really known where he is.
This edition is introduced by acclaimed author, Robert McCrum.
In a Free State tells the story first of an Indian servant in Washington, who becomes an American citizen but feels displaced.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
Naipaul’s Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else’s land and the attendant heartache.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers.
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