In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel — his first — V. 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,...
The story of a writer's singular journey — from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another — this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it...
Esta novela cuenta la historia de Ganesh Ramsumair, sanador y místico, desde sus humildes orígenes hasta que obtiene la fama y el reconocimiento. Sus primeros días en el colegio. Su intento de convertirse en profesor. Su boda con...