Half a Life

  • Half a Life: A Memoir
    By Darin Strauss

    In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life.

  • Half a Life: A Memoir
    By Jill Ciment

    Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to the California desert—a landscape and culture so alien to her father that the last vestiges of sanity leave him.

  • Half a Life
    By Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

    One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly...

  • Half a Life: A Novel
    By V. S. Naipaul

    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.

  • Half a Life
    By V. S. Naipaul

    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 ...

  • Half a Life: Social Space and Nation in the Settlement of Salvadoran Refugees in Costa Rica
    By Bridget Anne Hayden

    Half a Life: Social Space and Nation in the Settlement of Salvadoran Refugees in Costa Rica