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A House for Mr.Biswas (Paperback)
£8.09 - Save £0.90 (10%) - RRP £8.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A House for Mr.BiswasMohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him.
Full description- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Published: 03 January 2003
- Format: Paperback 200 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780330487191 ISBN 10: 0330487191
- Sales rank: 23,829
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Full description for A House for Mr.Biswas
"A House for Mr Biswas" is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 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, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic, "A House for Mr Biswas" masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. 'A marvellous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels' - "Newsweek".
