Magic Seeds

Author:: V.S. Naipaul
Format:: Softcover

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Short description

Presenting a moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it, this novel is also a testing study of the conflicts between the rich and the poor, and the struggles within each.

Long description

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.
Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanaticism and folly of the postmodern era. Moving with dreamlike swiftness from guerrilla encampment to prison cell, from the squalor of rural India to the glut and moral desolation of 1980s London, Magic Seeds is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations.

Product details

Publisher:: Vintage Books USA
ISBN:: 9780375707278
Publication date:: November 2005
Length:: 200mm
Width:: 144mm
Thickness:: 16mm
Weight:: 218g
Pages:: 280

Review

When Naipaul talks, we listen.
-- The Atlantic Monthly
Praise for Half a Life:
Naipaul is a master of English prose and the prose of Half a Life is as clean and cold as a knife.
--J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize
Here, sentence by sentence, is the consummate craftsmanship, the perception, the precision, the style.
-- The Globe and Mail

From the Hardcover edition.