Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul [Paperback: Good]

Paperback in Good condition (211 pages)

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, the Nobel Prize-winning author produces a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.

In a spare and beautifully crafted narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to the borrowed life. In one mans determined rejection of his own circumstance, Naipaul reveals a universal experience.