V. S. Naipaul presents Half a Life: A Novel

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345700 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Half a Life: A Novel Author: V. S. Naipaul Narrator: Neil Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: September 18, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 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.