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Half a Life
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 037570728X
ISBN13: 9780375707285
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 8 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375707285
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 8 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.16 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
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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