Sep 15, 2016 03:08 PM
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In a Free State is one of the best works of fiction I have read that deals with the subject of cultural incomprehensibility and the broken symmetry of colonial relationships. Naipaul's use of multiple stories helps him present a more balanced perspective than a straightforward novel would have allowed, the subject is one he has made his own, and his prose is up to its usual high standard. There can have been little surprise when In a Free State won the 1971 Booker Prize.