In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature the air had been thick

the air had been thick with sexual tension

With the ever-growing popularity of mythological retellings

the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875)

this is for anyone who has ever gone outside and wondered what is that

A stunning meditation on how the physical world can bring us back to earth from the edge of griefIn the aftermath of catastrophic loss

In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul #literature the air had been thickWinner 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