"Vintage Naipaul" includes the prologue and first chapter of the novel A House for Mr. Biswas; a vignette from the novel "Half a Life"; "Jasmine" from T"he Overcrowded Barracoon"; "Synthesis and Mimicry" from "India: A Wounded Civilization'; "A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa" from The Writer and the World; "Jack's Garden" from his memoir The Enigma of Arrival; and the story "The Bomoh's Son" from the collection Beyond Belief.
