Willie Chandran Series by V.S. Naipaul

3.15 · 26 ratings
  • Half a Life (Willie Chandran #1)
    #1

    Half a Life (Willie Chandran #1)

    V.S. Naipaul

    Rated: 3.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2001

    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... more

  • Magic Seeds (Willie Chandran #2)
    #2

    Magic Seeds (Willie Chandran #2)

    V.S. Naipaul

    Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2004

    Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister – and his own listlessness – and joins an underground movement in India. But years of revolutionary campaigns and then prison convince him that the revolution ‘had nothing to do with what we were fighting for’, and he feels himself further than ever ‘from his own history’... more

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