The Return of Eva Peron: With the Killings in Trinidad

by Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad

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New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. BE3 - A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and on the front with very minor overall shelf wear with some light fading along the bottom board edges. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light edge wear along the top and bottom spine edges plus there is a small closed tear (about 0.25") at the back top left corner. A collection of essays that are the author's examination of the crippling surrender to nihilism in what he describes as the "half-made societies" of Argentina, Trinidad, and the Congo. He examines how Eva Perón, despite being the same breed of tyrant, torturer, and thief as her husband, was canonized and her expensively embalmed corpse was trotted out to glamorize the "new Peronism." Another essay, examines the career of Michael X, an ex-pimp, pusher, and gambling-house operator gaining a kind of status and setting up a commune devoted to his own power and slaughtering three believers-turned-betrayers. Naipaul also looks at Mobutu of the Congo and who while preaching a new authentic Africa, ruled the nation like a medieval king. The final essay of the book preaents how Naipaul was motivated by the fiction of Joseph Conrad as well Conrad's vision of Africa, South AMerica, and the Far East in relation to Naipaul's contemporary experiences there. The author is a winner of the Booker Prize. By the author of "A House for Mr. Biswas," "Turn in the South," "An Area of Darkness," "Among the Believers," and "A Bend in the River." 228p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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