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  • By: V. S. Naipaul
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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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 19th-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.
©1994 V. S. Naipaul (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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syntropy brought me to this book

this book flows while carrying the reader between islands and continents, the past of one current life time and dashing through many lifetimes in the remote past. Echoes of themes held so bitterly in his book "Mimic Men" sounded between the chapters, but with much more humanity, charity and warmth (enhanced by the narrator's tone?). His history is peppered with self awareness I had forgotten he was capable of. i will be reading every bit of material that he has written.

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