531 pages
English language
Published April 4, 1961 by Andre Deutsch.
A house for Mr. Biswas
V. S. Naipaul: A house for Mr. Biswas (1961, Andre Deutsch)
- OCLC Number:
- 18529567
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.
