Fireflies
Naipaul, Shiva, 1945-2012
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Vimla Lutchman is a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, she scrapes a living by running a roadside vegetable stall and finds compensation in trading, in her children, in fortune-tellers and finally in solitude.
Main title:
Fireflies / Shiva Naipaul ; foreword by Amit Chaudhuri.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2012.
Collation:
416 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780141197234 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GENClassics
Language:
English
BRN:
384844