num_pages: 256
description: Winner of the 1971 Booker Prize, this grouping of two stories — a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul’s travel journals — is held together by Naipaul’s pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice.
language: English
title: In a Free State
titlecomplete: In a Free State
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, India, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 4824
places: Africa
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Golden Man Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage Canada