V.S. Naipaul: THE MYSTIC MASSEUR

This is the first novel of V.S. Naipaul, a Nobel Prize - winning author for Trinidad and Tobago. In this novel, the author writes about the life's journey of Ganesh which starts out as funny and ends up as touching and full of hope. Ganesh starts as a school primary-school teacher; when he fails, he becomes a masseur, then a mystic, then a writer, and so on.

Naipaul, when he writes, seems like he's touring the reader to different realms - his native land, his characters' minds, and his creative imagination. It's not difficult to read his books.

Rating: 4.0/5.0