by V. S. Naipaul · Picador · tapa dura · ISBN 9780330485166
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«Half a Life» is a literary fiction novel by V. S. Naipaul, published by Picador in hardback (227 pages, in English).
The novel tells the life of Willie Chandran, son of a Brahmin and a low-caste woman, who grows up in colonial India and flees to London to reinvent himself among bohemians and immigrants. There he seeks his place as a writer; then, love takes him to Portuguese Africa, where he lives through the last years of colonialism and with a borrowed identity.
First instalment of the Willie Chandran series. First edition, first printing. The work was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2001; V. S. Naipaul received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.
For adult readers of contemporary literary fiction, interested in the narrative work of V. S. Naipaul.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
