The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri no one in Britain is

no one in Britain is writing better crime fiction

'His imagination and feeling for the past is enormous

and the realities of life so long hidden from view before the levees broke

from the novel Life As It Is

These thirteen stories by writer and literary translator Jen Calleja pick apart the hidden motivations behind our desires

The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri no one in Britain isThis is a moving story of a familys beginnings, growth and, in the context both of time and Trinidadian society, its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipaul Akals memoir pays tribute to remarkable parents, so different but equal in importance to their large family. Her fathers life is one of heroic self invention, from virtual orphan in a dirt poor rural Indian family, one generation away from indentured migration, who through self education became