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The Mystic Masseur

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The Mystic Masseur

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$1500.00

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Goldsboro Books
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$1500
In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novelhis firstV. 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 islands medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, I know the sort of doctors they have in Trinidad. They think not

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