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The Suffrage of Elvira
First edition cover
Author
V. S. Naipaul
Cover artist
Robert Micklewright
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Publisher
Andre Deutsch
Publication date
1958
The Suffrage of Elvira is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul set in colonial Trinidad. It was written in 1957,[1] and was published in London the following year. It is a satire of the democratic process and the consequences of political change, published a few years before Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962.
^French, Patrick (2008), The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul, New York: Alfred Knopf, ISBN 978-0-307-27035-1
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