The Prevalence of Witches
By Aubrey Menen
1948
First Published
3.55
Average Rating
250
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This story is set in a backward district of India where witchcraft thrives. The efforts of the political agent and the education officer, aided by a phoney occidential "swami", to secure true justice for a village headman on a charge of murder is the basis for this book.
Avg Rating
3.55
Number of Ratings
31
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Author
Aubrey Menen
Author · 4 books
Salvator Aubrey Clarence Menen was born in 1912 in London, of Irish and Indian parents. After attending University College, London he worked as a drama critic and a stage director. When World War II broke out, he was in India, where he organized pro-Allied radio broadcasts and edited film scripts for the Indian government. After the war ended, he returned to London to work with an advertising agency's film department, but the success of his first novel, The Prevalence of Witches (1947), induced him to take up writing full-time. Aubrey Menen’s writings, often satirical, explore the nature of nationalism and the cultural contrast between his own Irish–Indian ancestry and his traditional British upbringing. Apart from his novels and non-fiction works Menen wrote two autobiographies titled Dead Man in the Silver Market (1953) and The Space within the Heart (1970). He died in 1989 in Thiruvananthapuram.
