Half a Life. V.S. Naipaul
by:
V.S. Naipaul (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330522854 (033052285X)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Modern,
Nobel Prize,
Post Colonial
Read my review of the book here:http://loadstoread.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/half-a-life-by-v-s-naipaul/
Sometimes I find it so hard to see past the characters to the analogy. I don't like Willie. I don't like his father. Story of Ana, please, or story of June or of Willie's mother or of Sarojini. Perhaps, as the Nobel comittee said, he can "compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories" but th...