Magic Seeds UK FIRST EDITION

Naipaul, V. S.

ISBN 10: 0330485202 / ISBN 13: 9780330485203

Published by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., 2004

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Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd. London, 2004. Hardcover. Threadsewn Binding. pp 294. UK FIRST EDITION. AS NEW and an UNREAD copy. OUT OF PRINT. Printed lithographically in black cloth stamped in gold on the spine. Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed along the very top and bottom edges. The dust jacket is otherwise in Fine condition. Please see the photographs attached to my listing to verify the condition of this book. Magic Seeds Synopsis: SYNOPSIS: 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. 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. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Language: eng. Seller Inventory # WFTB #095

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Title: Magic Seeds UK FIRST EDITION

Publisher: Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd.

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Willy Chandran - whom we first met in "Half a Life" - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister - and his own listlessness - and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution 'had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for', and he feels himself further than ever 'from his own history and...from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history'. When he returns to England where, 30 years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and he comes to see himself as a man 'serving an endless prison sentence' - a revelation that may finally release him into his true self. "Magic Seeds" is a masterpiece, written with all the depth and resonance, the clarity of vision and precision of language that are the hallmarks of this brilliant writer.

About the Author:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between A Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.