A house for Mr. Biswas

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481 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 1983 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-394-53400-8
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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.

9 editions

Subjects

  • East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction
  • Family -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction
  • Homeowners -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction
  • Journalists -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port of Spain -- Fiction