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8vo, III. 245pp. Hardcover, charcoal grey cloth boards; price clipped d/w in excellent condition. now protected by clear archival covering; Slight foxing on top end, with staining of ffep and a handwritten pen inscription by a prior owner on ffep too o/w text alsoin excellent condition Set in Africa, this novel depicts a civil conflict between the exploiter and the exploited during colonialism. Naipul won both the Booker Prize in 1971 for this book and the Nobel prize for literature in 2001 as well