Half A Life - A Novel

Author: V S NaipaulPublisher: Picador IndiaYear: 2001Language: EnglishPages: 228ISBN/UPC (if available): 0330485164 DescriptionA devastating work of exceptional sensitivity, grace and humor. In its depiction of love fulfilled and thwarted, in its vision of the laf-lives quietly lived out at the center of our restless, V S Naipaul’s new novel brings its own unique illumination to another aspect of our shared humanity.In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Wily Chandran’s father stood at odds with the world – aspiring to greatness whilst living out the dreary life marked out for him by his ancestors. In an attempt to defy his past, he marries as good as a low-caste woman only to find himself at the mercy of his own fury.From the unhappy union the utterly compelling character of Willy Chandran emerges, oddly like his father, naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. And so he is drawn to England, to the immigrant community