Magic Seeds - Brossura

Naipaul, V. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375707271 ISBN 13: 9780375707278

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2005

Riassunto

In his early forties, Willie Chandran abandons his peripatetic lifestyle with the encouragement of his sister to join an underground movement in India, but seven years of revolutionary campaigns--and several years in jail--convince him to return to England, where he once again uncovers the fruit of another unexpected social revolution, in a new novel by the Nobel laureate author of Half a Life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“When Naipaul talks, we listen.”
—The Atlantic Monthly

Praise for Half a Life:
“Naipaul is a master of English prose and the prose of Half a Life is as clean and cold as a knife.”
—J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize

“Here, sentence by sentence, is the consummate craftsmanship, the perception, the precision, the style.”
—The Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
 
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375707271
• ISBN 13: 9780375707278
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288