The Chip Chip Gatherers by Shiva Naipaul

The Chip-Chip Gatherers is a novel by Shiva Naipaul originally published in 1973 by Penguin Books. 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.

The 2682nd greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - Costa Book Award - Best Novel (Costa Coffee)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
The Chip-Chip Gatherers Hardcover 4602096 $100.26 $3.90
Chip-chip Gatherers Hardcover 11816288 $13.27 1973
The Chip-Chip Gatherers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Mass Market Paperback 4638182 $62.23 $4.00 1997
The Chip-chip Gatherers Paperback 6157983 $758.47 $4.69 1983