House for Mister Biswas
Language: English
Biography & Autobiography Domestic fiction East Indians East Indians - Trinidad and Tobago Editors Fiction General Home ownership Homeowners Humorous Humorous fiction Journalists Literary Middle aged men Middle-aged men Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) Publishers Trinidad and Tobago
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Dec 15, 2001
Description:
SUMMARY: The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.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 comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.