Magic seeds

By Naipaul, V. S.

Publishers Summary:
Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows disillusioned and returns to England, still hoping to find his true self.

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ISBN
978-0-37540-736-9
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on February 1, 2005

In his 2001 Nobel prize acceptance lecture, Naipaul observed, "I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others." Indeed, Magic Seeds continues and amplifies the checkered career of one Willie Chandran, the wily protagonist of Half a Life . However, Magic Seeds is less a sequel than a fulfillment of Naipaul's superbly nuanced worldview of a post-postcolonialist fi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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