A House for Mr Biswas

Author: V.S. Naipaul
ISBN: 9781857152135
Publisher: Everyman's Library (United Kingdom) 1995

Naipaul depicts the life of Mr Biswis, an outsider born into a world in which he does fit. He refused to conform to his family’s grandeur lifestyle and in a move for independence, marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he becomes dependent but then rebels and works through various jobs in an effort to gain independence and a house of his own. This comedy both moving and dark, and is set in post-colonial Trinidad.

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