The Mystic Masseur Trade paperback - 2002
by V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
The Nobel Prize winner's first novel traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic and the most beloved politician in 1940s Trinidad.
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Details
- Title The Mystic Masseur
- Author V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date January 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1192530
- ISBN 9780375707148 / 037570714X
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.12 x 0.52 in (20.47 x 13.00 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Satire
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001040849
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
From the publisher
From the jacket flap
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.
