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Fireflies
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Fireflies

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A comic-tragic family novel and a classic of Trinidadian literature

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 July 2012
Pages
432
ISBN
9780141197234

A comic-tragic family novel and a classic of Trinidadian literature

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 July 2012
Pages
432
ISBN
9780141197234