Laurens van den Broek reviewed The suffrage of Elvira by V. S. Naipaul
In this book, an old, comically timid and absent-minded man, Surujpat Harbans, runs for office, …
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4 stars
One of Naipaul’s earlier novels and my first introduction into his work. He was destined to do great things later on and this satire, still only his second novel, already shows. In one word: rumbunctious.