ISBN: 9781743295892
Format: Ebook
Pub Date: 01/08/2001
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945), FICTION / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Politics, Migration, immigration and emigration, London, Greater London
Imprint: Picador
Price: $8.99
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A devastatingly moving and often very funny novel from a masterful voice. In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Willy 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. Attempting to defy his past, he marries a low-caste woman only to find himself at the mercy of his own fury. From this unhappy union the utterly compelling character of Willy Chandran emerges, naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. He is drawn to England; the immigrant community of post war London, its dingy West End clubs, and sexual encounters, and even to the eccentric milieu of the English writer. But it is Willy's first experience of love that might bring him the fulfilment he so desperately seeks.
Author Information
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He is the author of 13 works of fiction, including A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and The Mystic Masseur, and 10 of non-fiction including An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization. He has won the Booker Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the WH Smith award and in 1993 was awarded the first David Cohen British Literature Award. His new novel, Half A Life, was published in September 2001. Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He lives in Wiltshire.
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