564 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1995 by David Campbell Publishers.
564 pages
English language
Published Nov. 18, 1995 by David Campbell Publishers.
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.