589 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1992 by Penguin Books.
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
- East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction
- Middle-aged men -- Fiction
- Home ownership -- Fiction
- Homeowners -- Fiction
- Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Fiction