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Half a life

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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.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

823 NAI h

Penerbit

Great Britain : First Picador., 2001

Deskripsi Fisik

227 p.; 21 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-330-485180

Klasifikasi

823

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Subjek

Sastra Inggris-Novel
migrasi
Mencari Kehidupan
The sickness of family
Ethnic

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Winner of the nobel prize in literature

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