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- Mystic Masseur, The
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1957-00-00 | Deutsch |  |
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- Blurb:
- In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive first novel, 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,