# Half a Life

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- Authors: [V.S. Naipaul](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general

## Description

The best novel I have read this year . . . the prose is crystalline and seductively so – you hardly realize that you are consuming a work of genius until you are plunged deep into a dramatic story which stretches across three continents.

## Editions

### Half a Life

- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-10-3503-909-8
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2024-11-07
- Language: en_GB

### Half a Life

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-7570-728-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2002-10-08
- Language: en_US