• Title: In a Free State
• Author: V.S. Naipaul
• Genre/Subject: British literature
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: –
• Start date: 12/27/2022
• Finish date: 12/28/2022

Review:

The fourth Booker Prize winning novel I have read since beginning my quest of reading all 50 plus winners.

Like all the others I have read there is no questioning the brilliance and reasons for winning. But like a lot of the others this one was pretty dark and very serious. Ferris Bueller gets the laughs but Schindler’s List gets the awards.

In the volume I obtained there were actually 3 separate works, 2 shorter novellas and the main novel. All were superlative.

Essentially a car journey across an African country on the brink of revolution. A gay man and his friend’s disloyal wife are the driver and passenger. Naipaul spins an incredibly rich narrative using just this journey as the vehicle.