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A House for Mr. Biswas

A House for Mr. Biswas

Naipaul, V. S.

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Series: Vintage International

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Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0375707166
ISBN13: 9780375707162
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Mar 13 2001
Pages: 576
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.28 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
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.

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