Magic Seeds

Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, one of the world’s most acclaimed authors, effortlessly tackles provocative ideas that lesser novelists shy away from—and always leaves his audience with something to think about. Willie Chandran feels as though the life he lives is not his own. But his listlessness washes away in a flood of encouragement from his radically political sister. Inspired, he joins an underground liberation movement in India. But after years of revolution and incarceration, he grows disillusioned and returns to England, still hoping to find his true self.