Fireflies
Fireflies Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. Naipaul and…
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Fireflies
Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers.
The Khojas are Trinidad's most venerated Hindu family. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. 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.
Fireflies
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