Magic Seeds

V. S. Naipaul · 2004 CE · Novel · Caribbean · Contemporary

Willie Chandran, the half-assured drifter of an earlier book, leaves Berlin and his sister to join a guerrilla band in the forests of the Indian interior, then falls into a quieter exile in London. He sees revolutionary politics from a distance and from within. The book concludes the story Naipaul began in Half a Life, which is not catalogued here.

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  V. S. Naipaul · 2001 CE · Novel

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