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Half a Life
de Naipaul, V. S
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0330485180
- ISBN 13
- 9780330485180
- Librería
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Picador, London, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Printed in Australia. In a corner of India untouched by anticolonial agitation, Willie 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. In an attempt to defy his past, he marries as good as a low caste woman only to find himself at the mercy of his own fury. – Rear panel blurb No damage to describe apart from age yellowing of the page margins Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN: 0330485180. ISBN/EAN: 9780330485180. Inventory No: 0272053. . 9780330485180
Sinopsis
Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his Brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste–a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that were a product of it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. He buries his self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer–strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. Together they return to her home to live out the last doomed days of colonialism, while Willie remains a passive bystander in yet another life that is not his own. (Summary from Publisher-Random House)
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Detalles
- Librería
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 0272053
- Título
- Half a Life
- Autor
- Naipaul, V. S
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0330485180
- ISBN 13
- 9780330485180
- Editorial
- Picador
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- BZDB2 Relationships caste system, India England Literature & Literary; Unbranded ISBN: 0330485180 EAN: 9780330485180 Naipaul, V. S Half a Life
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