Half a LifeBy: V. S. Naipaul In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian communities of post war London, it is only in his first experience of love that he finally senses the possibility