Naipaul applies his exquisitely crafted prose to subjects of colonialism, politics, the disenfranchised, and race in this collection of 20 essays written beginning in 1962. Based on his travels and grounded in history as well as his acute observation of current affairs, the essays take place in the countries of India, Mauritius, Trinidad, Grenada, Guyana, Zaire, Argentina, and the US.
