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Set in an imaginary African state against a backdrop of civil conflict, this novel sees Santosh, a young Indian servant, at the mercy of his dreams, his employers and the countries in which he is plunged. And the world of the Expats in Africa, struggling to understand the country they now live in.

"These new stories focus on the failure of heart, on the animallike cruelty man exhibits to other men and on the avarice that, as Chaucer's Pardoner told, is the root of all evil. Are we in a free state really? Or are organisms driven by the violent compulsions within us?....Mr. Naipaul's style in these stories seems leaner than in the past and much more somber. There is virtually none of the earlier playfulness. He appears to have settled for precision over abundance. Each detail and each incident is made to carry its weight in the narrative."

Thomas Lask, New York Times, 12/25/1971

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