{"product_id":"9780141969312","title":"9780141969312","description":"\u003cp\u003eShiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of \u003ci\u003eFirefles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Chip-Chip Gatherers\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Chip-Chip Gatherers\u003c\/i\u003e, his second novel, was winner of the Whitbread Literary Award in 1973 and is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant. Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, who has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will, is a capricious, eccentric despot who loves nobody and whom nobody can afford to ignore. There is his son Wilbert, bullied into passivity and failure; Vishnu the downtrodden grocer without grace or hope; the beautiful, unpredictable Sushila, who tries to wield her seductive powers over Ramsaran; and her daughter, Sita, intelligent enough to know that escape is possible. Their intricately woven lives are perfectly captured in all their pathos, comedy and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072399556848,"sku":"9780141969312","price":11.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141969312_p0.jpg?v=1763656428","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141969312","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}