Half a Life.  -  V.S. Naipaul

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"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 issued from 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.

This is what happens as he tries to...
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2001 Uitgever: Alfred A. Knopf 224 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0330485164 ISBN-13: 9780330485166