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V.S. Naipaul: Half a Life


  • Random House US
  • 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.

ISBN 9780375707285 | E | PB
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Publisher Random House US
ISBN 9780375707285
Author(s) V.S. Naipaul
Publication date October 2002
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 203 x 132 mm
Pages 224
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.

V.S. Naipaul: Half a Life

V.S. Naipaul: Half a Life

€15.95