The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
And Other Comic Inventions
(includes The Suffrage of Elvira, A Flag on the Island and Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion)
Written early in V. S. Naipaul’s prolific career, these three works of fiction — two novels and a collection of stories — are ample evidence of his cosmopolitan reach and his seemingly effortless command of broad comedy and acute observation.