Beyond The Dragon's Mouth: Stories & Pieces
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A writer of rare precision and unflinching honesty, Shiva Naipaul presents in Beyond the Dragon's Mouth a rich and varied collection of stories and pieces that draw from the full breadth of his experience — from the sun-drenched streets of Trinidad to the restless, shifting landscapes of Africa and the wider world. The collection captures lives caught between tradition and modernity, between belonging and exile, rendered with a prose style that is at once lyrical and devastatingly exact. Naipaul's work stands apart from his more celebrated brother V.S. Naipaul's in its warmer, though no less critical, gaze — one that chronicles the absurdities and dignities of postcolonial life with wit, melancholy, and moral seriousness. This collection, assembled with the retrospective weight of a career cut tragically short, illustrates why Shiva Naipaul remains one of the most underappreciated voices of twentieth-century Commonwealth literature. Those who discover him here will find themselves haunted by the question of what further masterworks were lost when he died at just forty.
Author: Shiva Naipaul
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A writer of rare precision and unflinching honesty, Shiva Naipaul presents in Beyond the Dragon's Mouth a rich and varied collection of stories and pieces that draw from the full breadth of his experience — from the sun-drenched streets of Trinidad to the restless, shifting landscapes of Africa and the wider world. The collection captures lives caught between tradition and modernity, between belonging and exile, rendered with a prose style that is at once lyrical and devastatingly exact. Naipaul's work stands apart from his more celebrated brother V.S. Naipaul's in its warmer, though no less critical, gaze — one that chronicles the absurdities and dignities of postcolonial life with wit, melancholy, and moral seriousness. This collection, assembled with the retrospective weight of a career cut tragically short, illustrates why Shiva Naipaul remains one of the most underappreciated voices of twentieth-century Commonwealth literature. Those who discover him here will find themselves haunted by the question of what further masterworks were lost when he died at just forty.