Fireflies
Shiva Naipaul
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.
- Publisher
- André Deutsch
- ISBN-13
- 9780233962061
- Genre
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Awards
- The Booker PrizeLonglistedMajor(1970)
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