Half a Life by V S Naipaul

Half a Life by V S Naipaul

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.

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ISBN 13	9780375707285
ISBN 10	037570728X
Titel	Half a Life
Autor	V S Naipaul
Serie	Vintage International
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-10-08
Seitenanzahl	224
Preise	Winner of Nobel Prize 2001
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