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Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

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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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V.S. Naipaul

Naipaul was born and raised in Trinidad, to which his grandfathers had emigrated from India as indentured servants. He is known for the wistfully comic early novels of Trinidad, the bleaker novels of a wider world remade by the passage of peoples, and the vigilant chronicles of his life and travels, all written in characteristic, widely admired, prose. At 17, he won a Trinidad Government scholarship to study abroad. In the introduction to the 20th-anniversary edition of A House for Mr. Biswas, he reflected that the scholarship would have allowed him to study any subject at any institution of higher learning in the British Commonwealth, but that he chose to go to Oxford to do a simple degree in English. He went, he wrote, "in order at last to write...." In August 1950, Naipaul boarded a Pan Am flight to New York, continuing the next day by boat to London. 50 years later, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

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A masterpiece of implicitness...explicitly concerned with drawing out the metaphysical-private while keeping it embedded in society and history...The ironies in Half a Life wind like a fugue into infinity...Identity is an enigma...To make that sentiment breathe in the mouth of a living character, and then rise from the page with silent laughter, is a beautiful completion: the mark of a genius and a cause of unending delight. -- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

A surprise and a pleasure...here, at last, is a work of pure imagination, though the themes are characteristic in their complex peculiarity...In sentences of great precision and balance, Naipaul reanimates the dilemmas of the late and post-colonial experience...He reminds us again of what a fine and unusual writer he is. -- "Observer Review (London)"

A troubling novel, genuinely moving...disturbing in all the right ways...A stunning book, three continents, three journeys, the evergreen themes of caste and class, of growing up. -- "Miami Herald"

As disquieting as anything [Naipaul] has ever written...His terse prose works, as always, to imply a world in a phrase. -- "New York Times Book Review"

May tell us more about the essential Naipaul than he has ever heretofore revealed...The work of a master who has rarely, if ever, written better. -- "Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"

One of the world's greatest living novelists...Naipaul has thankfully lost none of his grace, style, or storytelling power in this beautiful novel. -- "Independent (London)"

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AuthorV.S. Naipaul
PublisherPicador
Publication date2011 A.D
LanguageEnglish
BindingPaperback

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