Half a Life

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 232 pages

A small masterpiece in it's own right...deftly combines Dickensian delight in character with political and social observation...while recounting with uncommon elegance and acerbity the coming of age of its hero, Willie Chandran.

About the author

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. He was educated at University College, Oxford and lived in Great Britain since 1950. From 1954 to 1956, he edited a radio program on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Caribbean Service. His first novel, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His other novels included A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Guerrillas, and Half a Life. In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. He started writing nonfiction in the 1960s. His first nonfiction book, The Middle Passage, was published in 1962. His other nonfiction works included An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, and A Turn in the South. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Half a Life; Bolinda large print books
• Author: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited, 2002
• ISBN: 1740306856, 9781740306850
• Length: 232 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological