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V. S. Naipaul continues the semi-autobiographical story he began in HALF A LIFE (2001). Willie Chandran, born in India but living in Berlin, returns to his homeland as an activist, working on behalf of India's poor and lower-caste until he lands in prison. Released because he is a famous and valuable writer, Willie travels to England, gets involved in a menage-a-trois, finds a job, but becomes increasingly disillusioned with the state of the Western world. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul's observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture 'Two Worlds'. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul's previous volume of highly-acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.

Willy Chandra is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. Now after seven year of revolutionary campaigns is the revolution really to do with the village people.

Willie Chandran, personaje ya célebre en la obra de V.S. Naipaul, decide cambiar drásticamente el rumbo de su vida y para ello se traslada a vivir a Berlín, ciudad en la que reside su hermana, una joven activista que despertara en el un sentimiento radical de compromiso politico. De este modo, Willie entra a formar parte de un movimiento de liberacion en la India. Tras pasar unos meses en India, entre pequeños pueblos desolados, miseria, secretos y conspiraciones, Willie toma conciencia de labrutalidad e idealismo de dicha organizacion. Decepcionado y hastiado, intenta abandonar el grupo, momento en el que es encarceladopor el supuesto asesinato de tres policias. Tan repentina es la acusacion como su liberacion bajo custodia, y Willie regresa a Inglaterra con la esperanza de encontrar el orden y la comodidad occidental. No obstante, Occidente tampoco es el hogar que tan desesperadamente añora Willie Chandran. Semillas magicas es una novela conmovedora en la que a traves del retrato de un hombre que busca su propia identidad, podemos reflexionar sobre la pobreza y la riqueza, asi como el sentimiento de pertenencia a algun lugar en este mundo.

This collection of 40 years of V. S. Naipaul's writing encompasses his observations on topics ranging from Muslims in India to a local election in New York City. A New York Times Notable Book for 200

Para los vecinos de Miguel Street, un rincón olvidado de la capital de Trinidad, su barrio es un compendio del mundo, donde cada cual es diferente a los demás. Allí viven Popo, el carpintero, que descuida el trabajo que le da sustento para construir la cosa sin nombre. Man-man, que huye de la oficina para representar su propia crucifixion. Big Foot, el maton asustadizo de lagrimas cristalizadas. Y la adorable señora Hereira, esclavizada por un marido monstruoso. Sus vidas y las leyendas que los vecinos levantan a su alrededor son interpretadas por V.S. Naipaul con verbo dickensiano y compasion chejoviana. Situada durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y narrada por un adolescente sin nombre, precoz observador de su barrio, Miguel Street (1959) es una novela de juventud, tierna y divertida, que rebosa vida en todas sus paginas.

V.S. Naipaul's incisive narrative powers and clear-eyed view of modern and traditional societies are clearly demonstrated in the Prologue and chapter one from A House for Biswas; "Jasmine" from The Overcrowded Barracoon; "Synthesis and Mimicry" from India: A Wounded Civilization; the dinner party vignette from "Half a Life"; and many more.

"A Turn in the South" is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers, ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight and originality we expect from one of our best travel writers. Fascinating and poetic, this is a remarkable book on race, culture and country. 'Naipaul's writing is supple and fluid, meticulously crafted, adventurous and quick to surprise. And, as usual, there's the freshness and originality of his way of looking at things ...a fine book by a fine man, and one to be read with great enjoyment: a book of style, sagacity and wit' - "Sunday Times". 'A tissue of brilliantly recorded hearsay, of intense listening by a man with a remarkable ear' - "New York Times Review of Books".

An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism

El senyor Mohun Biswas sha passat els quaranta-sis anys de la seva vida a Trinidad buscant la independència, però lúnic que ha trobat és el fracàs. Després de la mort del seu pare, de la qual ell ha

This volume presents two of V. S. Naipaul's earliest novels, already displaying his humour, endless inventiveness and imaginitive brilliance. "The Mystic Masseur" tells the story of Ganesh, who at the beginning of the novel is a struggling masseur at a time when 'masseurs were ten a penny in Trinidad'. From failed primary-school teacher and masseur to author, revered mystic and MBE, his is a journey memorable for its hilarious and bewildering success. Naipaul's clarity of style, humorous touch and powerful characterization are all in evidence in this, his first book. Funny, touching and perceptive, this novel is a wonderful introduction for readers new to Naipaul's writing. Included too in this edition is another exceptional early novel, "Miguel Street", which won the Somerset Maugham Award on its appearance in 1959.

In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India's manifold complexities.

Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, t he outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his gra nder in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a hous e of his own, he triumphs over t

The time is World War II, the setting a derelict street in Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain. In this tender early novel, Naipaul renders the residents' lives (and the legends that arise around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.

Just 40, Ralph Singh--a disgraced colonial minister exiled from Isabella, the Caribbean island of his birth--writes his autobiography in a genteel hotel in a run-down London suburb. As always, Naipaul's concern is the ways in which an individual seeks to construct some kind of order in a politically and morally chaotic world. This is one of Naipaul's most profound investigations of colonial psychology and the consequences of imperialism.