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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