{"product_id":"magic-seeds-9780375707278","title":"Magic Seeds","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling \u003ci\u003eHalf a Life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most essential English-language novelist of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanaticism and folly of the postmodern era. Moving with dreamlike swiftness from guerrilla encampment to prison cell, from the squalor of rural India to the glut and moral desolation of 1980s London, \u003ci\u003eMagic Seeds\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375707278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.86h x 5.68w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/20\/2005 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44174016643253,"sku":"9780375707278","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8aba6c4b-4e19-4abd-8103-f8c778c5e479.jpg?v=1716299956","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/magic-seeds-9780375707278","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}