Fireflies

Fireflies

by Shiva Naipaul
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Publisher:
Penguin UK
Genre:Fiction
Language: en
Published:2012
ISBN13:9780141197234
ISBN10:0141197234

About the Book

Set in Trinidad, Shiva Naipaul's birthplace, Fireflies (first published in 1970) is a chronicle of the fortunes of Vimla Lutchman, nicknamed Baby, a member of the powerful and wealthy Khoja family. As her disastrous marriage to a local bus driver unravels, Baby scrapes a living by running a roadside vegetable stall and finds compensation in trading, in her children, in fortune-tellers and finally in solitude.