A house for Mr. Biswas

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V. S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas (1995, David Campbell Publishers)

564 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 1995 by David Campbell Publishers.

ISBN:
978-1-85715-213-5
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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.

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