The Mystic Masseur Tapa blanda - 2002
de V. S. Naipaul
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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In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel-his first-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, "I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think nothing of killing two, three people before breakfast."
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.
Detalles
- Título The Mystic Masseur
- Autor V. S. Naipaul
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 224
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Vintage, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2002-01-08
- ISBN 9780375707148 / 037570714X
- Peso 0.39 libras (0.18 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.06 x 5.12 x 0.52 pulgadas (20.47 x 13.00 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous fiction, Satire
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2001040849
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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