The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book: And Other Comic Inventions
“V. S. Naipaul is the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” –The New York Times Book Review“As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.” –The New York Review of Books“V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer. . . . This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.” –Kingsley Amis,The Spectator