Half a Life
New York : Knopf, 2001.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm
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.
"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.
Subjects:
East Indians -- England -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
East Indians -- England -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa -- Fiction.
London (England) -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
ISBN:
037570728X (pbk.)
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F Naipaul | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |