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Half a Life

Half a Life

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In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian communities of post-war London, it is only in his first experience of love that he finally senses the possibility of fulfilment. In its humorous and sensitive vision of the half-lives quietly lived out at the centre of our world, V.S. Naipaul's graceful novel brings its own unique illumination to essential aspects of our shared history. 'The best novel I have read this year . . . the prose is crystalline and seductively so - you hardly realize that you are consuming a work of genius until you are plunged deep into a dramatic story which stretches across three continents' Antonia Fraser, Irish Times 'Brilliant . . . Writing with a degree of wit and subtlety beyond the grasp of most writers, Naipaul has built a bleak world of discomfort and yearning from which, paradoxically, the reader will not want to escape' Daily Mail 'Parts are as sly and funny as anything Naipaul has written. Nobody who enjoys seeing English beautifully controlled should miss this novel' John Carey, Sunday Times
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2011-04-01
Publication Date:
2011-04-01
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
033052285X
ISBN13:
9780330522854
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
200 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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