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How the Story of V.S. Naipaul’s Early Life Went Up in Flames

LOST MASTERPIECES

With the simple mistake of conflating boxes labeled ‘NAIPAUL’ with those that read ‘NITRATE,’ the author, who died recently, lost a third of his personal and professional archives.

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