The Golden Notebook.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's magnum opus. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of fellow Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on the front free endpaper. V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was a Trinidad-born novelist and essayist whose works, including A House for Mr Biswas (1961), In a Free State (1971), and A Bend in the River (1979), probe the complexities of postcolonial identity, exile, and cultural dislocation with a style noted for its clarity and irony. Widely recognized for both his fiction and travel writing, he received numerous honors, most notably the Booker Prize in 1971 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, cementing his reputation as one of the most significant literary voices of the late twentieth century. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by William Belcher. An exceptional association.