Paperback, 592 pages
English language
Published Aug. 26, 1976 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
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
- Journalists
- Fiction - General
- Trinidad and Tobago
- General
- Fiction / General
- East Indians
- Fiction
- Port of Spain