531 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1961 by Andre Deutsch.
A house for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas (1961, Andre Deutsch)
- OCLC Number:
- 18529567
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.
