A House for Mr. Biswas (Vintage International) - Softcover

Naipaul, V S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375707166 ISBN 13: 9780375707162

Publisher: Vintage, 2001

Synopsis

"The Nobel Prize winner's first great novel" (Barack Obama), A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.

In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous- and endless-struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

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Review:

"[A] great novel." --Barack Obama

"Naipaul has constructed a marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." --Newsweek

Book Description:

A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375707166
• ISBN 13: 9780375707162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576