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  A House for Mr. Biswas (Vintage International) (Paperback) By (author) V S Naipaul

  

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  Short Description for A House for Mr. BiswasThe 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 ...
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books USA
  • Published: 13 March 2001
  • Format: Paperback 576 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780375707162 ISBN 10: 0375707166
  • Sales rank: 120,902

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• 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.