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SIGNED FIRST EDITION COPY: 'Shiva Naipaul'
(handwritten inscription: 'Dad. Happy Christmas Love Bidge. 1982'.)
Shiva Naipaul was born in 1945 and educated in Trinidad and at University College Oxford where he read classical Chinese. He was based in London but travelled widely in India, Africa, the Caribbean and the United States.
Naipaul died in 1985.
"Shiva Naipaul was one of those people who caused your heart to lift when he entered the room... in losing him, we have lost thirty years of untranscribed, unvarnished genius".
Martin Amis

This selection from Neruda's CANTO GENERAL includes dramatic illustrations by Jose Venturelli, originally reproduced in Chile in 1947, and an introduction by Christopher Perriman.

'A thrilling hybrid of travelogue and detective story... a fine piece of writing... 'Somebody Else' deserves to become a classic'.
Sunday Times
This is the story of Rimbaud's 'lost years', the years after he turned his back on poetry, and fame, and France, for a life of wandering and obscurity in the wilds of East Africa.