Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo
Publisher: Picador, 2001, London
ISBN: 0330485164

[Book #14578]

An attractive First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket, this one SIGNED by author V. S. Naipaul directly on the title page;

Willie Chandran's father rejected his Brahmin heritage to marry a lower caste woman, much to his regret. As an adult, Willie contrived a new identity as a bohemian writer in 1950's London. At the brink of exhaustion, he is rescued by the love of a woman who carries him to her home in Africa where he stays for 18 years, living a life not quite his own; Signed by Author