In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature ' POPPY OKOTCHA

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ISBN: 9780571383375

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature ' POPPY OKOTCHAWinner of the Booker Prize 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018. A young Indian servant in Washington. An Asian West Indian in London. Both are far from home and both are desperately trying to build a new life in a deeply unfamiliar world. In between them lies the landscape of an unnamed country, a brutal place reminiscent of Idi Amins Uganda. This central story is about those who once thought of Africa as liberating, but now