"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 choi…
The son of a man who, inspired by Gandhi, married below his caste, travels to New York where he struggles to find his identity and forge a career as a writer.
A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man's experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means…
Willy Chandrans far giftet seg med en kvinne av lav kaste, etter en stund begynte han å avsky henne. Den ulykkelige alliansen resulterte i to barnefødsler? Willy og hans søster. Det er fra dette punkt at "Half a life" utspiller seg? vi følger Willy på hans søken etter å finne si…