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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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Half a Life, V. S. Naipaul
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
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- Titel
- Half a Life
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- V. S. Naipaul
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2002
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 224
- ISBN10
- 037570728X
- ISBN13
- 9780375707285
- Reihe
- Willie Chandran
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Esoterik & Religion, Historische Romane, Religion, Deutschland, England, Leben, Sexualität & Intimität, Großbritannien, Afrika, Berlin, London, Indien, Flucht, Identität, Nobelpreis, Hinduismus, Nachkriegszeit, Portugal, Kolonialismus, Außenseiter
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- 3,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.