A house for Mr. Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul.
Edition: 3rd ed. with foreward.
Publisher: A. Deutsch
Published: 1984
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Fiction; Middle-aged men -- Fiction; Home ownership -- Fiction; Homeowners -- Fiction; Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mr. Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. When he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, he takes on myriad vocations in an arduous 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 the backdrop of postcolonial Trinidad.