by V. S. Naipaul · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330485180
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«Half a Life» is the literary novel by V. S. Naipaul, published by Picador in paperback (227 pages, in English).
Willie Chandran, born of a cross-caste marriage, leaves India to seek his own identity in postwar London, among immigrants and literary ambitions. A relationship later takes him to a province of Portuguese Africa in the last years of colonialism, where uprootedness and the weight of inheritance shape his life.
First instalment of the Willie Chandran series by V. S. Naipaul. Originally published in 2001, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, especially those interested in India, migration, and the end of colonialism.
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.
