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Language English Media type Print Originally published 1957 Page count 215 Country United Kingdom | 3.4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1957 Pages 215 Publisher André Deutsch Genre Contemporary fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Similar Miguel Street, The Suffrage of Elvira, The Mimic Men, A House for Mr Biswas, The Middle Passage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mystic Masseur is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul. It is set in colonial Trinidad and was published in London in 1957.
Contents
The novel is about a frustrated writer of Indian descent who rises from an impoverished background to become a successful politician on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur - a masseur who can cure illnesses.
Publication and critical reception
The publisher André Deutsch encouraged Naipaul to write a novel after seeing the manuscript of his collection of short stories, Miguel Street.
The Mystic Masseur won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1958.
Film
The novel was the first by Naipaul to be filmed. The 2001 film adaptation, The Mystic Masseur, is a Merchant Ivory production.
References
The Mystic Masseur (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA