The Chip-Chip Gatherers
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First edition
The Chip-Chip Gatherers is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1973 by Andre Deutsch. It was reprinted in a new edition as a Penguin Twentieth Century Classic in 1997. It is a comic story following a cast of colourful Hindu and Muslim characters of Indian descent in a large village in Trinidad. It won the Whitbread Award.
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- 1970s novel stubs
- 1973 novels
- Novels set in Trinidad and Tobago
- André Deutsch books