Half a Life
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375707285 |
| ISBN 10 | 037570728X |
| Title | Half a Life |
| Author | V S Naipaul |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-10-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Nobel Prize 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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