Magic Seeds. (Vintage) - Brossura

Naipaul, V.S.

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ISBN 10: 1400096251 ISBN 13: 9781400096251

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2005

Riassunto

A stunning novel of the present moment that takes us into the hearts and minds of those who use terrorism as an ideal and a way of life, and those who aspire to the frightening power of wealth.

Abandoning a life he felt was not his own, Willie Chandran (the hero of Half a Life) moves to Berlin where his sister’s radical political awakening inspires him to join a liberation movement in India. There, in the jungles and dirt-poor small villages, through months of secrecy and night marches, Willie — a solitary, inward man — discovers both the idealism and brutality of guerilla warfare. When he finally escapes the movement, he is imprisoned for the murder of three policemen. Released unexpectedly on condition he return to England, he attempts to climb back into life in the West, but his experience of wealth, love and despair in London only bedevils him further.

Magic Seeds is a moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it, and a testing study of the conflicts between the rich and the poor, and the struggles within each. Its spare, elegant prose sizzles with devastating psychological analysis, bleak humour and astonishing characters. Only V. S. Naipaul could have written a novel so attuned to the world and so much a challenge to it.
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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. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. His books include Literary Occasions, A House for Mr. Biswas and The Enigma of Arrival. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400096251
• ISBN 13: 9781400096251
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288