Fireflies
  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197234
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $34.99

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.
  • Published: 19 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141197234
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $34.99
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