- Mystics, Fiction, Political fiction, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English), Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction
"Traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village 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."--P. [4] of cover.
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Classical in form, cool, comic and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- V. S. Naipaul
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 215
- Publisher
- Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Heinemann Educational, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- English, heb, Chinese, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780676975086
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“LATER HE WAS TO BE famous and honoured throughout the South Caribbean; he was to be a hero of the people and, after that, a British representative at Lake Success.”
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He published more than thirty books over fifty years. Naipaul's breakthrough novel *A House for Mr Biswas* was published in 1961. He won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a *Free State,* and the Jerusalem Prize in 1983. In 1990, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and the Nobel Prize in Literat
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