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V.S. Naipaul: Half a Life
- Random House US
- by V.S. Naipaul
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Publisher | Random House US |
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ISBN | 9780375707285 |
Author(s) | V.S. Naipaul |
Publication date | October 2002 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 203 x 132 mm |
Pages | 224 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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.
V.S. Naipaul: Half a Life