Magic Seeds, V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds, V. S. Naipaul
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Magic Seeds

Author: V. S. Naipaul

Narrator: Aasif Mandvi

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/16/2004


Synopsis

Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, effortlessly tackles provocative ideas that lesser novelists shy away from—and always leaves his audience with something to think about. 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.

About V. S. Naipaul

V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction. His honors include the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Booker Prize, the Trinity Cross, and a knighthood for services to literature. He was named a finalist for the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction. He was born in Trinidad in 1932 and went to Oxford on a scholarship in 1950.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gina

What I learned from this book would take another book to explain. Naipaul is such a prolix writer with chameleon shifts of tone - and did I mention his incredibly drawn characters? Right now, the brain is swimming in his wonderful sea of words, so let me pick one example of each facet of fiction. C......more