The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri Redwan Abushwesha

Redwan Abushwesha

The original intention with this issue had been to celebrate the World Service of the BBC to which MPT in its formative years

Philip Metres

'His imagination and feeling for the past is enormous

spellbinding collection from the winner of the 2012 Polari First Book Prize

The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri Redwan AbushweshaThis 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