The Chip-Chip Gatherers Paperback / softback
by Shiva Naipaul
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers.
The Chip-Chip Gatherers, his second novel, was winner of the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad.
It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant.
Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, who has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will, is a capricious, eccentric despot who loves nobody and whom nobody can afford to ignore.
There is his son Wilbert, bullied into passivity and failure; Vishnu the downtrodden grocer without grace or hope; the beautiful, unpredictable Sushila, who tries to wield her seductive powers over Ramsaran; and her daughter, Sita, intelligent enough to know that escape is possible.
Their intricately woven lives are perfectly captured in all their pathos, comedy and humanity.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/07/2012
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- ISBN:9780141197227
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:05/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141197227
