V.S. Naipaul 
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. Naipauls 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.