| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-330-43328-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0330433280 |
| No of pages | 294 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Published Date | 02 Sep 2005 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-330-43328-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0330433280 |
| No of pages | 294 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Published Date | 02 Sep 2005 |
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018, most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vida Naipaul, was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.
He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels.
He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. In 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honor.
He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the late 19th century, Naipaul's grandparents had emigrated from India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants.
His breakthrough novel A House for Mr. Biswas was published in 1961. On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, he dedicated it to Patricia Anne Hale, to whom he was married from 1955 until her death in 1996, and who had served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings.
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From V.S Naipaul, a spare, searing new novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willie Chandran is 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 prison convince him that the revolution ‘had nothing to do with what we were fighting for’, and he feels himself further than ever ‘from his own history.’ When he returns to Britain where, thirty years before, his wanderings began, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history.
He endures the indignities of a culture dissipated by reform and compromise until, in a moment of grotesque revelation–a tour de force of parodic savagery from our most visionary of writers–Willie comes to an understanding that might finally allow him to release his true self.
Praise for Magic Seeds: ‘Original, ruthlessly honest, intellectually stimulating and masterfully written’ The Times ‘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 Hens her, Daily Telegraph ‘Spare, concentrated and always capable of breaking out into extraordinary flashes of sympathy, awareness, and insight’ D. J. Taylor, Literary Review.