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Half a Life

By Naipaul, V. S.

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Half a Life

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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2002-10-08
Publication Date:
2002-10-08
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
037570728X
ISBN13:
9780375707285
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[email protected]
Weight:
202 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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