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Fireflies

Shiva Naipaul

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Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. The Khojas are Trinidad's most venerated Hindu family. 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.

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Publisher
André Deutsch
Year
1970
ISBN-13
9780233962061
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Family and traditionArranged marriage and survivalPost-colonial Trinidad society

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