Description:
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. It was a disastrous union he would
regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches
manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from
India to London, where he assumes a new identity. Falling in love, he
returns with his lover to her home in Africa during the last days of
colonialism.
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Ruth Ruder
Gary Demos
Cindie Geddes
Pat Miller
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Also
by this author:
A
House for Mr. Biswas; Vintage Books; March 2001
Beyond
Belief: Islamic Excursions Among
the Converted Peoples; Alfred A Knopf; December 1999
The Enigma of Arrival; Vintage Books; April 1988
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