Half a Life
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Neil Shah
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V. S. Naipaul
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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portuguese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 388
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- De Lawrence en 01-15-05
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Guerrillas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 7
On an unnamed Caribbean Island, political tensions provoked by race and poverty are high. Jimmy Ahmed, a young mixed-race man, has been hailed as a revolutionary leader of the people. Roche, imprisoned for activities against South Africa's apartheid regime, and Jane, a feckless English rich girl wanting to feel a part of something bigger, get sucked into the turmoil and world of Ahmed. But does anyone achieve anything by causing unrest? Do any of them really want freedom in a new society or just the old society with themselves at the helm of power?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Reactionary Islamophobia 101
- De Kobugi en 03-13-20
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Enigma of Arrival
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A noveau novel
- De Chike M Nzerue en 05-02-20
De: V. S. Naipaul
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In a Free State
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 89
On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Magical Prose …
- De Saman en 07-19-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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An Area of Darkness
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Go slowly with this one, or it's a slog
- De John S. en 08-15-21
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Mystic Masseur
- A Novel
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidad's dusty Indian villages, The Mystic Masseur is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty Good
- De Joan en 09-23-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful & informative!
- De Kindle Customer en 05-03-24
De: V. S. Naipaul
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 24 h y 46 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 18
Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than 50 years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society - the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ
- De JK en 08-15-21
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Miguel Street
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 134
"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more." But to its residents, this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings.
- De anton en 10-27-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Ron Butler, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
V. S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.
De: V. S. Naipaul