Half a Life

V. S. Naipaul

Original title: Half a life

earliest edition we have, 2001 Knopf, 2001 211 pages

One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago.Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste--a disastrous union he would...

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Half a Life ebook · 2009 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307556561
Half a life edition · 2002 · Vintage Canada · 211 pages
Half a Life edition · 2002 · Vintage · 224 pages · 9780375707285
Half a life edition · 2001 · Knopf · 211 pages
Half a life edition · 2001 · Picador · 227 pages

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