The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul

The Mystic Masseur by V.S. NaipaulIn 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

all yearning for connection and betterment

Radha Paudel writes about her mission to have menstrual dignity acknowledged as a human right in Nepal

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joined by his wife

Learning the habits in this book might be the only difference standing between millionaires and you

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Now Filmed as 1947

From the detention centre on Ellis Island

It is a story of love

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge - two major figures of English Romanticism

quality and objectivity

while historically grounded