The Mystic Masseur

Publication and critical reception

The publisher André Deutsch encouraged Naipaul to write a novel after seeing the manuscript of his collection of short stories, Miguel Street.[1]

The Mystic Masseur won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1958.


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