Half a Life

di V. S. Naipaul (Autore)

Shah Neil (Narratore)

Blackstone Publishing, 2018

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 Portuguese 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.

• Autore: V. S. Naipaul
• Narratore: Shah Neil
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 07:07:00
• Anno edizione: 2018
• Editore: Blackstone Publishing
• EAN: 9781538555095

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