Naipaul, Shiva The Chip-Chip Gatherers ISBN 13: 9780394483450

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At the centre of Shiva Naipaul's magnificent story of the Settlement, a crowded, ramshackle community in Trinidad, stands Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company. Sheer bloody-minded strength of will has made him the richest man in the Settlement, a capricious, eccentric tyrant who loves nobody and whom nobody can afford to ignore. There is his son, Wilbert, bullied into passivity and failure; Vishnu Bholai, the downtrodden grocer without grace or hope; Julian Bholai, hoping to escape his father's fate by becoming a doctor; the beautiful, unpredictable Sushila, who briefly wields her seductive powers over Ramsaran; and her daughter, Sita, intelligent enough to know that escape is impossible. Their intricately woven lives are perfectly captured in all their pathos, comedy and humanity.

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"The author unsparingly probes the thoughts and emotional undercurrents of each character in an old-fashioned yet dexterous exposition," said LJ's reviewer of this novel (LJ 5/1/73). The Chip-Chip Gatherers features a collection of ramshackle residents of a small village in Trinidad who have long since abandoned hope. Those who don't like their novels sugar-coated will find this "good reading."
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  • PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
  • Publication date1973
  • ISBN 10 0394483456
  • ISBN 13 9780394483450
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages319
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