A Way in the World
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A Way in the World

A NovelBy V. S. NaipaulNarrated by Simon Vance
Length11h 40m

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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.

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length11 hrs 40 mins
Narrated bySimon Vance
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 4, 2018
LanguageEnglish

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