In a Free State

V. S. Naipaul · 1971 CE · Novel · Caribbean · Contemporary

Two English expatriates drive four hundred miles across an African country while a king's people are being hunted, and their small cruelties to each other keep pace with the roadblocks. Around that journey stand a Bombay cook stranded in Washington, an Indian brother lost in London, and a traveller's journal kept in Egypt. Booker Prize winner, and the point where Naipaul stops writing about a home.

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