The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri Hassan Yaghi

Hassan Yaghi

Redwan Abushwesha

with Tim Liardet weighing up collections by Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley

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

from the novel Life As It Is

The Naipauls of Nepaul Street Monzer Masri Hassan YaghiThis 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