Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
Experiencing issues with Overdrive in your browser via the library’s catalog? BiblioCore: app02 Version 8.34.1 Last updated 2020/11/02 13:05, New York : Anchor Books, a Division of Random House LLC, 2016, Zhang, Ailing — Translations Into English, Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction, China — Social Life and Customs — 20th Century — Fiction. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness.
As Manzhen and Shijun go on their separate paths, they lose track of one another, and their lives become filled with feints and schemes, missed connections and tragic misunderstandings. Half A Lifelong Romance A Novel (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Zhang, Ailing — Translations Into English. The novel is set in India, Africa and Europe (London, Berlin and Portugal). There are no comments for this title yet. But dark circumstances--a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret--force the two young lovers apart. But dark circumstances--a lustful brother-in-law, a treacherous sister, a family secret--force the two young lovers apart. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother. The novel is set in India, Africa and Europe (London, Berlin and Portugal). New York :, Anchor Books, a Division of Random House LLC,, 2016. There he leads a life as a different man with an interesting background 'oriental' and fakes the facts of his life. Learn how and when to remove this template message, The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles, The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Half_a_Life_(novel)&oldid=919065939, Articles needing additional references from May 2010, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 October 2019, at 17:17. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. They fall in love and Willie follows her to her country (an unnamed Portuguese colony in Africa, presumably Mozambique). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Later in London he writes a book of short stories and manages to publish it. There are no notices for this title yet. Half a Life is a 2001 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul published by Alfred A. Knopf. At every turn, societal expectations seem to thwart their prospects for happiness. His father gave him his middle name as a homage to the English writer Somerset Maugham who had visited the father in the temple where the father was living under a vow of silence.
Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. There are no summaries for this title yet. He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Willie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet. A glamorous, wrenching tale set against the glittering backdrop of an extraordinary city, Half a Lifelong Romance is a beloved classic from one of the essential writers of twentieth-century China"-- Provided by publisher.
Having discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background. The novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18-year stay in Africa. Having come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.
Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again. We appreciate your patience. There are no comments for this title yet. Half a Life was long listed for the Man Booker prize (2001). He is determined to resist his family's efforts to match him with his wealthy cousin so that he can marry the woman he truly loves. There are no summaries for this title yet.
Half A Lifelong Romance (Book) : Zhang, Ailing : "Shanghai, 1930s. Man-woman Relationships — China — Fiction. Still, Manzhen and Shijun dare to hold out hope--however slim--that they might one day meet again.
Latest chapter of Half a Lifelong Fault Romance read online. The, Open for voting Tuesday, November 3, all Curbside location services will be. Curbside service is now available at select locations.
Plot summary. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen. Shen Shijun, a young engineer, has fallen in love with his colleague, the beautiful Gu Manzhen.
Please note holds and returned items have increased processing times. Half a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin. Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.
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