Magic Seeds
22 March 2012
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In V. S. Naipaul's Magic Seeds we follow Willie Chandran, a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the encouragement of his sister – and his own listlessness – and joins an underground movement in India. But years of revolutionary campaigns and then...
Details
22 March 2012
304 pages
9780330516273
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A radical further step in one of the great imaginative careers of our time . . . Magic Seeds demands our attention, and nothing more authoritative will be published this year.Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
A novel that has subtlety, originality, shattering emotion and unmatched precision of language.Observer