Why do people have to live their life as if it is an epic story. Perhaps in the modern day, it is already a little confused what made us live the life the way we live it. You have movie that idealized the scenario and then you have people chasing after those ideal and then "live life to the full", is there a lacking of originality of some sorts. Have people already forgotten how to live life from their hearts? But then we are often haunted by insecurity. This could be what we see in ourselves and how we see it, perhaps a little close to identity crisis, but still you keep "running away". running away like what Aruna did in "half life", a story about "running away" and then later "coming home".The story builds its plots in three locations, London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. There are a lot of flash backs and reflections in the story, you felt at times you were watching a movie. It is the sort of structure that is not easy to build upon. There is certain subtly and precision that are essential in each important section, which is self-contained, since the development of the story is non-linear.
Putting it in a linear or straightforward sense, it is about the story of Aruna, a young Bengali woman living in East London, but suffered from bipolar, and how she decided to walk out of her marriage one evening. A story like this seems very familiar to most. It is about "looking for oneself", "looking for true love", etc. "Half life" is in fact a story like this. It has a plot that built up following one to the next, until at the end you found everything falls back together. Taking the journey that Aruna began, she first left London, went to Singapore to meet her former boyfriend,and then both went to Kuala Lumpur to meet the ex-boyfriend's father, where the ex-boyfriend has some issues.
At the end of it, all get sorted and Aruna, with the encouragement of her ex-boyfriend, thinks she needs to get on. Aruna found that for her, "half life" has gone, but it's time to go home, the place where her heart belongs and only she knows where, as Aruna began to listen to her own heart, taking a step back and taking things slowly. In the novel, the story ends, but in a real life, for anyone, it is actually just another beginning. The beginning of the next "half life".......
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