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Half a Life
(9780330522854 / 9780330522854) - V. S. Naipaul - Paperback - PAN MACMILLAN INDIA - Publication year: 2011 | Paperback Book, Paperback New Naipaul, V Naipaul, Half a Life V, Sir V S Naipaul
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In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a lowcaste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian communities of postwar London, it is only in his first experience of love that he finally senses the possibility of fulfilment. In its humorous and sensitive vision of the halflives quietly lived out at the centre of our world, V.S.
Naipaul's graceful novel brings its own unique illumination to essential aspects of our shared history. the prose is crystalline and seductively so you hardly realize that you are consuming a work of genius until you are plunged deep into a dramatic story which stretches across three continents Antonia Fraser, Irish Times Brilliant.
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| Brand | ![]() Pan Macmillan is a publishing company that was founded in 1887. It is now a subsidiary of the German media company Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. |
| ISBN | Pan Macmillan 9780330522854 |
| MPN | Pan Macmillan 9780330522854 |
| ID | 10636187 |
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