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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. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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East Indians -- England -- Fiction.
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Colonies -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) -- Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Colonies -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Écrivains -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Authors. |
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Colonies. |
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East Indians. |
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Portuguese colonies. |
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Psychological fiction. |
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Portugal -- Colonies -- Africa -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- Fiction.
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Africa -- Fiction.
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Portugal -- Colonies -- Afrique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Londres (Angleterre) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Afrique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. |
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Africa. |
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England. |
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England -- London. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9780307556561 : $45.00 |
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0307556565 : $45.00 |
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