Paperback, 200 pages
Published Jan. 3, 2003 by Picador.
A House for Mr.Biswas
4 stars
(4 reviews)
Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds himself thwarted by his wife’s family and by his own ineptitude and over-reaching ambition.
Subjects
- Modern fiction
- Fiction