Half a Life V S Naipaul
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By V. S. Naipaul Willie Chandran is the son of a Brahmin ascetic and the lower-caste woman his father married as an act of self-denial. Growing up, Willie can see the hollowness of it, and swears to live more truthfully than that.
| ISBN | 9780375707285 |
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| Language | English |
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By V. S. Naipaul
Willie Chandran is the son of a Brahmin ascetic and the lower-caste woman his father married as an act of self-denial. Growing up, Willie can see the hollowness of it, and swears to live more truthfully than that.
The search takes him to the immigrant and literary edges of 1950s London, to a brief career as a writer, and then to an unnamed Portuguese colony in Africa, where he spends eighteen years in a marriage and a country that are both about to end. A short novel about the borrowed bargains people build an identity out of.
First published 2001
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