Half a Life
by V. S. Naipaul | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0307556565 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0307556565 Global Overview for this book
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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.” (Summary from Amazon.com)
This book was taken from the Rahbar Free Library book box at Princeton Junction. I will read and release it elsewhere.
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.” (Summary from Amazon.com)
This book was taken from the Rahbar Free Library book box at Princeton Junction. I will read and release it elsewhere.
Journal Entry 2 by RNAi at Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 21, 2022
This book traveled with me from Princeton to NYC to Ireland. Now we’re in Northern Ireland.