| ID | 016828 |
| Call Number | 823.914/NAI |
| Title Proper | Mystic masseur: a novel |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Naipaul, V.S. |
| Publication | New York, Vintage international, 2002. |
| Description | 207p Light Blue and Brown Spine |
| Note | 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.” |
| Standard Number | 9780375707148 |
| Price. Qualification | $15.00(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 823.914 |
| Key Words | IBDP ; Indian writing in English ; Mystics - Fiction ; Trinidad and Tobago - Fiction |