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his is the story of Willy Somerset Chandran. His father, misguidedly taking his cue from Gandhi, had aborted his studies and married a very low-caste woman. The mix in castes left the marriage miserable, and presents Willy, the son, with a compelling reason to go abroad to London. Once in London, Willy hangs out in the company of poor recent immigrants and literary bohemians, and discovers that he can re-fashion himself through writing. His sexual adventures and his attempts to become a writer exhaust him. It is only through the love of a seemingly equally-mismatched woman that he spends the next twenty-four years at colonialism's end, in a Portuguese colony of Africa, in a life that is, like all of his past endeavors, not quite his own.
