Series: Willie Chandran
by Author V.S. Naipaul
Book
Half a Life (2009)
Sometime in the late 90s Sir Vidia declared that the novel as we know it is dead. It has been supplanted by other forms of entertainment. And soon after he comes out with ‘Half a Life’. As someone who has admired his works. I was swept by the grace and simple beauty of ‘A House for Mr Biswas’. I ...
Book
Magic Seeds (2005)
I chose this book because of the title, not realizing that it is a sequel to HALF I LIFE which I did not read. To be fair, I can't give this a just assessment. Suffice it to say, I couldn't get all the way through it. The idea of magic seeds is based on the magic of being able to produce a racele...