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A Hot Country (published as Love and Death in a Hot Country in the US) was the last novel to be written by Shiva Naipaul and also his shortest in length. It was published in 1983.[1]
Before its publication, Naipaul had not written a novel in ten years. A Hot Country departs from the comic style of his earlier novels Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers.
It is set during an election in the fictional Caribbean country of Cuyama, thought to be based on Guyana where Naipaul had researched his book Black & White about the Jonestown Massacre, which profoundly affected him.
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edit- ^ "Review by John Cooke, University of New Orleans". World Literature Today Vol. 59, No. 1 (Winter, 1985), p. 150.
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