by V.S. Naipaul · Pan MacMillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330485197
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«Half a Life» is the literary fiction novel by V.S. Naipaul, published by Pan MacMillan in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Willie Chandran travels from India to London to study in the 1950s and discovers that his colonial past allows him to reinvent himself through writing. His marriage to an African woman takes him to Mozambique, where life on a plantation confronts him with disillusionment, in a story about colonialism, identity and uprootedness.
First instalment of the Willie Chandran series. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001. Originally published in 2001; this edition is from 2002.
For readers of literary fiction and postcolonial narrative who want to delve deeper into the work of V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize in Literature 2001.
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.
