Half a Life_ A Novel - V. S. Naipaul
International acclaim for V. S. NAIPAUL and
Half a Life
“Stunning…. Brilliant…. A story of remarkable economy…. Naipaul writes with the haunting efficiency of an ancient legend … powerful and unsettling.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“A superb exercise, in miniature, of Mr. Naipaul's finest gift, a revelation of history's disastrous impact on private life.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Naipaul is a master of English prose, and the prose of Half a Life is as clean and cold ...