The mystic masseur: a novel
by Naipaul, V. S., (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
"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."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Full title :The mystic masseur : a novel / V.S. Naipaul.
Summary
"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."--Page 4 of cover.
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- Publication Date:2002.
- Edition:1st Vintage International ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Vintage Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
Originally published in hardcover the United States by The Vanguard Press, 1959.
Co[pyright renewed 1985.
The Physical Object
- Description:vii, 207 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:037570714X, 9780375707148
- oclc:ocm47838372
- LC Classification:PR9272.9.N32
- Dewey Decimal:823/.914
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