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Элайда, сделавшись единоличной правительницей Белой Башни, все силы кладет на то, чтобы расправиться с Рандом ал'Тором, объявленным Лжедраконом. Ранд, плененный по приказу Элайды, при помощи Айз Седай, не подчинившихся власти Престола Амерлин, обретает свободу. Но государства разобщены, смутой охвачен мир, от засухи и жары, наведенных Темным на континент, страдает сама земля. Непосильная задача встает перед Возрожденным Драконом – любой ценой объединить людей и народы, ибо, только сплотившись, можно одолеть Темного, средоточие мирового зла…

В настоящем издании текст романа заново отредактирован и исправлен.

Во всех произведениях, входящих в этот сборник, присутствует тема религиозной веры. Религия накладывает заметный отпечаток на мироощущение и поведение героев, формирует и деформирует их идеалы и ценности, неоднозначно влияет на нравственные установки, на отношение к окружающим, находит отражение в традициях и обычаях общества. В сборник вошли повести и рассказы зарубежных писателей М. Эме, Р. Брэдбери, Г. Гессе, Н. Казандзакиса, А. Тутуолы, Д. Дюморье и др. Многие из них переведены на русский язык впервые. Сборник рассчитан на широкий круг читателей.

В. С. Найпол родился в Вест-Индии, на острове Тринидад, в 1932 году. Его семья принадлежала к небольшой колонии индийских коммерсантов, предки которых переселились сюда из Индии в качестве сельскохозяйственных рабочих в середине 19-го века. Он окончил школу в Порт-оф-Спейне, на ос. Тринидад, а затем поступил в Оксфордский университет, где изучал английский язык и литературу. С тех пор он постоянно живет в Англии (и женат на англичанке), однако часто приезжает на Тринидад навестить свою семью.

Найпол начал писать еще в студенческие годы, и с тех пор это стало его основным занятием. Его первый роман появился в 1957 году, последний — восьмой — в 1972. Все они встретили хороший прием, в особенности — «Дом для мистера Бисваса» (1961); после него Найпол был признан одним из лучших писателей среди тех, кто пишет на английском языке. Его книга «Подражатели» (1970) была удостоена высоко котирующейся в литературных кругах премии им. У. X. Смита, а роман «На свободе» (1971) — Букеровской премии.

Видиа Найпол родился на острове Тринидад в семье выходцев из Индии. Окончил Оксфордский Университет. Пишет на английском языке. Его первый роман «Таинственный массажист» (1957 г.) получил премию Ллевелина Райса, сборник рассказов «Мигель — Стрит» (1959 г.) удостоен премии Сомерсета Моэма. Среди других романов — «Дом для мистера Бисваса» (1961 г.), «Ненастоящие» (1967 г.), «В подвешенном состоянии» (1971 г.), «Партизаны» (1974), сборник повестей и рассказов «Флаг над островом» (1967 г.)

Рассказы «Ч. Вордсворт» и «Хэт» взяты из сборника «Мигель — Стрит»

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life.

Having 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, Magic Seeds is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations.

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian. . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."-New York Times.

“Intricate … poignant … fabulous … a potent blend of fact and fiction, autobiography, history, imagination.”

— Washington Post Book World

“Naipaul is an artful arranger. His technique is to layer memory and history so that the past is an iridescence that colors the present.”

— Time

“Whichever way the narrative takes us … characters, ideas, events [are] elegantly juggled, set down and picked up again with a technical brilliance that comes with a lifetime’s experience…. Brave … fascinating is a beautiful lament.”

— Caryl Phillips,

“A Way in the World

— Wall Street Journal

“Naipaul, master of literature, is playing historical trickster for us.… His reasoning and presentation are flawless, styled in English at its purest.… One cannot help but be fascinated by this cast of the master’s dice.”

— Philadelphia Inquirer

V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction — two novels and a collection of stories — that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.

The Suffrage of Elvira Mr. Stone and the Knights CompanionA Flag on the Island

The story of a writer's singular journey — from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another — this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

In the "brilliant novel" () V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

For the first time: the Nobel Prize winner’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author.

Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award — winning in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize— winning an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting.

No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.

A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world.

Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.

“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.

Set during World War II and narrated by an unnamed — but precociously observant — neighborhood boy, Miguel Street is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.

In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel — his first — V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the island’s medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, “I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast.”

Ganesh’s ascent is variously aided and impeded by a Dickensian cast of rogues and eccentrics. There’s his skeptical wife, Leela, whose schooling has made her excessively, fond. of; punctuation: marks!; and Leela’s father, Ramlogan, a man of startling mood changes and an ever-ready cutlass. There’s the aunt known as The Great Belcher. There are patients pursued by malign clouds or afflicted with an amorous fascination with bicycles. Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidad’s dusty Indian villages, The Mystic Masseur is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative.