{"product_id":"9780307594020","title":"Collected Short Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning \u003ci\u003eMiguel Street,\u003c\/i\u003e in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales \u003ci\u003ein A Flag on the Island, \u003c\/i\u003emeanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize– winning \u003ci\u003eIn a Free State,\u003c\/i\u003e an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007833096432,"sku":"9780307594020","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307594020_p0.jpg?v=1763673072","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307594020","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}