The Mystic Masseur Julie Corbin Aurelio Zen finds himself back

Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome

or so Minnie thinks

Returning to England

near-mythical city of Nineveh

Now the game really begins

The Mystic Masseur Julie Corbin Aurelio Zen finds himself backIn this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novelhis firstV. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. To understand a little better, one has to realize that in the 1940s masseurs were the islands medical practitioners of choice. As one character observes, I know the sort of