Ralph Singh is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence in this novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. V.S. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and ten of non-fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Ralph Singh is writing his memoirs in an attempt to impose order on a chaotic existence in this novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the postcolonial world. V.S. Naipaul is the author of 13 works of fiction and ten of non-fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.