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The Mystic Masseur

  • V. S. Naipaul

3.50

2 ratings

"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.

Genres

  • Mystics
  • Fiction
  • Political fiction, Trinidadian and Tobagonian (English)
  • Trinidadian and Tobagonian fiction
  • Successful people
  • Fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Politics and government
  • Trinidad and Tobago fiction
  • Novela
  • Mysticismo
  • Sátira
  • Fiction, humorous
  • East Indians
  • Duty-free importation of containers
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About the author

  • V. S. Naipaul

    1932-08-17 - 2018-08-11

    3.62

    39 ratings · 331 works

Editions

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    Penguin

    1969

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    A. Deutsch

    1957

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    Vanguard Press

    1959-01-01

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    Penguin

    1964-01-01

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Blackstone Publishing

Nov 27, 2018

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    Blackstone Audio

    Nov 27, 2018

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    Blackstone Audio

    Nov 27, 2018

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    A. Deutsch

    1960

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    Tra edition

    Debolsillo

    April 30, 2005

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    Debate

    January 2002

  • Edition cover

    New edition

    Heinemann Educational

    June 1971

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    Penguin Books

    1964

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    1st Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage Books

    1984

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    New Impression edition

    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    September 29, 1977

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    Penguin Books

    1980

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    Penguin (Non-Classics)

    September 29, 1977

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    Vanguard Press

    1959

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    Penguin

    1964

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    Vanguard Press

    1959

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    Deutsch

    1957

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    Penguin

    1964

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    New Ed edition

    Picador

    October 12, 2001

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    New Ed edition

    Picador

    January 3, 2003

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    Pan Macmillan

    September 21, 2001

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    A. Deutsch

    1978

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    Penguin Books

    1980

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    1st Vintage International ed.

    Vintage Books

    2002

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    Vintage Books

    2002-01-08

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    1966

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    Pan Macmillan

    2011

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    A. Deutsch

    1960

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  • Edition cover

    A. Deutsch

    1969

  • Edition cover

    A. Deutsch

    1966

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    Penguin

    1973

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    A. Deutsch, 1960.

    1960

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    Vanguard Press

    June 1971

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    Chu ban

    Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si

    2007

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    Heinemann

    1971