Half a Life EPUB
by V. S. Naipaul
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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.
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- Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date:23/04/2009
- ISBN:9780307556561
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date:23/04/2009
- ISBN:9780307556561