Magic Seeds

Magic Seeds
1st UK edition (publ. Picador)

Magic Seeds is a 2004 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul published by Alfred A. Knopf (US). The novel is set in India and Europe (Berlin and London).

Plot summary

"'Magic Seeds'" is a sequel to Naipaul's 2001 novel Half a Life. "Magic Seeds" takes over where "Half a Life" left off - with Willie Somerset Chandran, a transplanted Indian, living with his sister Sarojini in Berlin. He was forced to come to Germany after a revolution in an unnamed African country (presumably Mozambique) forced him into exile. He had spent 18 years in Africa, and is ill at ease in the urban European setting. His sister arranges for him to return to India and become involved with communist guerrillas over there. He accepts this mission, but without any real sense of commitment to the rebels cause. He is quickly disillusioned with the guerrillas - their personal shortcomings and the ill-advised tactics of the movement - but remains involved with them partly out of inertia and partly out of fear that his former comrades might kill him. Eventually he gets captured and imprisoned, and finds life in prison preferable to the life on a run. He gets released from the prison when his London friend Roger arranges for an old collection of his short stories to be republished, which causes some embarrassment to the Indian government. Willie moves to London, and there he finds himself in an upper-middle class social set, and he slowly drifts into the life in the suburbs, with all its ironies and quiet sense of claustrophobia.

References

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375707278

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Seeds-V-S-Naipaul/dp/0375407367


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