Magic Seeds

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“Naipaul has a great gift for … crushingly economical observations…. [His] books … are passionately engaged with the world.”

— The New York Review of Books

“An elegant little story — with a moral…. What is distinctive [is] the light that it sheds on India, especially rural India.”

— The Wall Street Journal

“A masterful and evocative writer…. The language is clear and readable…. [His] ideas are rich, provocative, and worthy.”

— Rocky Mountain News

“Original, ruthlessly honest, intellectually stimulating and masterfully written.”

— The Times (London)

“There is a terrible purity to the prose. It is clean and dry, tough but never brittle…. [Magic Seeds] revisit[s] most, if not all, of the themes, obsessions and social worlds of his earlier fiction.”

— Newsday

“Offers a gripping glimpse at the sadness of a dream deferred.”

— Entertainment Weekly

“Bleakly comic…. Full of all Naipaul’s exact and cumulative brilliance.”

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