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...