The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions by V.S. Naipaul

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book and Other Comic Inventions

V.S. Naipaul

516 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr Stone and the Knights...

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