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The mystic masseur : a novel

Author: V S Naipaul
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage International edView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Genre/Form: Satire
Humorous fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: V S Naipaul
ISBN: 037570714X 9780375707148
OCLC Number: 47838372
Description: vii, 207 p. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: V.S. Naipaul.
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"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.

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