The mystic masseur
Subtitle: a novel
By: V.S. Naipaul.
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Mystics -- Fiction; Political fiction, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English)
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--P. [4] of cover.