The Enigma of Arrival

The story of a writer's singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

• A House for Mr. Biswas
• A Bend in the River
• In a Free State: A Novel
• Waterland
• The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
• The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought
• Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
• The Blue Flower: A Novel
• The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite
• The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited