A House for Mr Biswas

Heart-rending and darkly comic, V.S. Naipaul''s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century''s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man''s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of postcolonial Trinidad. Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him - and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his father. Wanting simply to flirt with a beautiful woman, he ends up married to her. But in spite of his endless setbacks, Mr Biswas is determined to achieve independence, and so he begins the gruelling struggle to buy a home of his own.

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.03.2025
• EAN: 9781035038602
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503860-2
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 39 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Trinidad and Tobago, Humorous fiction, Sociology: family & relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1960 to c 1970, Trinidad & Tobago, Epic, c 1960 to c 1969