Guido Louis Peter Paul Golüke Knihy

Příběh čtrnáctileté dívky, která se rozhodne pomstít smrt svého otce. Vydá se na výpravu za jeho vrahem ve společnosti federálního maršála, jenž má pověst opilce, ale zároveň tvrdého muže, protože málokdy dovede zločince před soud živé. Postupem času s nimi, napůl proti jejich vůli, spojí síly i texaský ranger LaBoeuf a tato trojice pak staví svůj důvtip proti přesile skupiny desperátů. Kniha je považována za jeden z nejlepších amerických románů na téma Divokého západu a stala se předlohou pro stejnojmenný film.

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious compound wife -- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best.