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Fireflies

Door Shiva Naipaul

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#360485-VF47
Titel
Fireflies
Auteur
Naipaul, Shiva
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
1971
ISBN10
014018824X
ISBN13
9780140188240
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri.
The Khojas are Trinidad's most venerated Hindu family. Rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane and hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, they seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only 'Baby' Khoja, who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver, proves an exception to this rule. Her heroic story - of resourcefulness, strength and survival - is the gleaming thread in Shiva Naipaul's ferociously comic and profound
... (Lees verder)ly sad first novel.
Pagina's
415
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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