EPISODE · Sep 4, 2018 · 11H 43M
A Way in the World: A Novel - V. S. Naipaul
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Way in the World: A Novel Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism. Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/344731 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Way in the World: A Novel Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Simon Vance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 43 minutes Release date: September 4, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In a vastly innovative novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul intertwines memory and history to create what is at once an autobiography and an ambitious fictional archaeology of colonialism. Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance.
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