

The Mystic Masseur
A Novel
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Narrator: Ron Butler
Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/27/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Narrator: Ron Butler
Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 11/27/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was the author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction. His honors include the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Booker Prize, the Trinity Cross, and a knighthood for services to literature. He was named a finalist for the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for achievement in fiction. He was born in Trinidad in 1932 and went to Oxford on a scholarship in 1950.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.
“This life is a funny thing, eh.” She said, "one day somebody dead and you cry. Two days later somebody married and then you laugh.” I bear no ill-will for this book as I jumped over to it under the fit of a fizzing rage mixed with a sort of mental flurry that emerged in me out of sheer curiosity to......more
The Mystic Masseur is more subtle in its social criticism than I had come to expect from Naipaul's semi-autobiographical works and collected essays. The author does not break narrative to make explicit commentary about Indian culture in Trinidad, but the characters that populate this novel represent......more
I can't remember chuckling so much reading any book in the last few months.. Mystic Masseur by V.S Naipaul is one of the finest comic capers i have laid my eyes upon.It is the story of the rise of Ganesh Ramasumair,a failed Primary school teacher and struggling masseur to a writer ,mystic and finall......more
“Uncovers a rich vein of ethnic humor in the world of the Caribbean Hindu…Good-natured satire.” New York Times
“Delightful…Wickedly sardonic humor and [an] eye and ear for the absurd.” Guardian (London)
“For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul.” New York Times Book Review, praise for the author