A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s
brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is 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.
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