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Half a Life (Willie Chandran #1) by V S Naipaul; Baker & Taylor Axis 360 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Half a Life (Willie Chandran #1) about?

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.

Who reads Half a Life (Willie Chandran #1)?

Author

V S Naipaul; Baker & Taylor Axis 360

Publisher

Vintage International

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307556561

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.23 / 5 (2,665 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14