A House for Mr. Biswas
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Author: V. S. Naipaul
9780330522892 | PB | pp. 628 | 2011 | Picador
In this heartrending and darkly comic novel, the author tells the tale of Mr Biswas who yearns for a place to call home.
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In this heartrending and darkly comic novel, the author tells the tale of Mr Biswas who yearns for a place to call home.
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Born the ‘wrong way’ and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.
Heartrending and darkly comic, A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels and this triumph of resilience, persistence and dignity masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.
| Author: | V. S. Naipaul |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780330522892 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 628 |
| Year of Publishing: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
About the Author
The author was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and, most recently, a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son, and The Masque of Africa. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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