A House for Mr. Biswas -- V. S. Naipaul, Paperback
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. "A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." --Newsweek 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 yet comedic novel, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
A House for Mr. Biswas -- V. S. Naipaul, Paperback
$19.00
Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 3/13/2001
Pages: 576
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95 lbs
Size: 7.94" H x 5.28" L x 0.99" W
ISBN: 9780375707162