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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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Half a Life, V. S. Naipaul
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
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- Titel
- Half a Life
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- V. S. Naipaul
- Uitgever
- National Geographic Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2002
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 224
- ISBN10
- 037570728X
- ISBN13
- 9780375707285
- Reeks
- Willie Chandran
- Tags
- Fictie, Esoterie & Religie, Historische romans, Religie, Duitsland, Engeland, Leven, Seksualiteit & intimiteit, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Afrika, Berlijn, Londen, Indië, Ontsnapping, Identiteit, Nobelprijs, Hindoeïsme, Naoorlogse Periode, Portugal, Kolonialisme, Buitenstaander
- Beoordeling
- 3,25 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.