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Half a Life
V S Naipaul
Half a Life
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.
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 Portuguese 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.
Médias | Musique CD (Disque compact) |
Nombre de disques | 1 |
Validé | 18 septembre 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9781538555033 |
Étiquette | Blackstone Publishing |
Dimensions | 155 × 168 × 30 mm · 317 g |
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