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Fireflies

Door Shiva Naipaul

Fireflies
CategorieEngels
Boeknummer#360485
TitelFireflies
AuteurNaipaul, Shiva
BoektypePaperback
UitgeverijLondon : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave1971
ISBN10014018824X
ISBN139780140188240
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingPaperback, 8vo.
SamenvattingShiva 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 profoundly sad first novel.
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