Naipaul, V.S.
A house for Mr. Biswas - New Delhi Penguin Books 1992 - xv,590p.
With an introduction by Ian Buruma
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswasis an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
0140186042
English literature- Fiction
Trinidad and Tobago
East Indians
Trinidad and Tobago--Port of Spain
Home ownership
Middle-aged men
Homeowners
Autonomy (Psychology)
English fiction
823.914 / NAI/H
A house for Mr. Biswas - New Delhi Penguin Books 1992 - xv,590p.
With an introduction by Ian Buruma
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswasis an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
0140186042
English literature- Fiction
Trinidad and Tobago
East Indians
Trinidad and Tobago--Port of Spain
Home ownership
Middle-aged men
Homeowners
Autonomy (Psychology)
English fiction
823.914 / NAI/H