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Half a Life A Novel
by [Naipaul, V. S.]
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produced his finest novel, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
"A masterpiece." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
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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- Vintage Brand
- Oct 8, 2002 Pub Date:
- 9780375707285 ISBN-13:
- 037570728X ISBN-10:
- 224.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8 in * 0.5 in * 5.33 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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