《自由国度》是2001年诺贝尔文学奖获得者奈保尔的“最重要的作品”。小说通过对不同主人公的空间生存状态的描写,采用不同的叙事视角叙述其人生际遇,表现了身处异国他乡的移民在异域文化环境中感受到的疏离感,再现了后殖民时代的“自由状态”。 Free Country is the most important piece of work by Naipaul, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature. By describing the living conditions of different protagonists, the novel uses different narrative perspectives to describe their life experiences, showing the sense of alienation that immigrants living in different foreign countries feel in the exotic cultural environment and reproducing the freedom of post-colonial era status".