The Naipauls of Nepaul Street - Akal, Savi Naipaul
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This is a moving story of a Trinidadian-Indian family's beginnings, growth and its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipaul Akal's memoir pays tribute to extraordinary parents: Her father Seepersad Naipaul, virtual orphan in a dirt- poor rural Indian family, one generation away from indentured migration, who through self-education became a remarkable journalist and writer. And her mother Dropatie, who displayed remarkable diplomatic skills in sustaining a relationship with the large, prosperous and inward-looking Capildeo clan, of which she was the seventh daughter, whilst loyally supporting her…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This is a moving story of a Trinidadian-Indian family's beginnings, growth and its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipaul Akal's memoir pays tribute to extraordinary parents: Her father Seepersad Naipaul, virtual orphan in a dirt- poor rural Indian family, one generation away from indentured migration, who through self-education became a remarkable journalist and writer. And her mother Dropatie, who displayed remarkable diplomatic skills in sustaining a relationship with the large, prosperous and inward-looking Capildeo clan, of which she was the seventh daughter, whilst loyally supporting her husband's insistence on independence and engagement with Trinidadian life. After Seepersad's tragically early death, Dropatie held the family together, so that all seven children achieved university education. It is an account of family loyalty, sacrifice, and sometimes tensions; pride in the writing achievements of her brothers Vidia and Shiva, and sorrow over estrangements and Shiva's premature death. The memoir also gives a sharply observed picture of cultural change in Trinidad from colony to independent nation, of being Indian in a Creole society, and of the role of education in migrant families. Elegant and lucid, written with a distinctively personal voice, the book is further enhanced by the generous quantity of family photographs that say so much about these people and the times they lived through.
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Autorenporträt
Savitri Naipaul Akal was born in the Lion House in Chaguanas in Trinidad, the fifth child and fourth daughter of Seepersad and Droapatie Naipaul. She obtained a BA degree partially from Edinburgh University in Scotland (1961-1963), completed at UWI in Trinidad (1968), followed by a Diploma in Education in 1973. She was a part-time tutor in Sociology at UWI, T&T, (1968-1972), whilst her full-time post was as a teacher of Geography at the Convent schools and at Tranquillity. She retired from the latter as Vice-Principal in 1980.