In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has "given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written" (The New York Times).
The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul--himself a native of Trinidad--shows how that delusion...