Bookshelf 2023: The Mystic Masseur's Wife
...J. Vijay Maharaj more than meets the challenge of giving voice to Naipaul’s semi-literate Leela Ramsumair, a shy, comic, and stereotypic rural East Indian woman in the original. [...] Though Maharaj is no Naipaul, her own Leela reveals a good bit about rural East Indian women’s realities and implicitly teases many of Naipaul’s prejudices—as well as revealing one spunky woman—in pre-independence Trinidad.
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