A House For Mr Biswas
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 5th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Born into poverty in colonial Trinidad, Mohun Biswas spends the whole of his life consumed by one desperate, burning ambition: to own a house of his own. A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's towering masterwork — a richly comic yet profoundly moving chronicle of one man's fierce struggle for independence, identity, and dignity against the suffocating grip of the Tulsi family into which he marries. Set against the vibrant and turbulent backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Trinidad, the novel maps four decades of Mr Biswas's life with extraordinary detail and satirical precision. Naipaul's prose is both exuberant and elegiac, weaving sharp social observation with deep psychological insight into the postcolonial condition — the ache of displacement, the tyranny of dependency, and the universal human need to lay claim to one's own corner of the world. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, it draws clear parallels to Naipaul's own father and upbringing, lending it an autobiographical urgency that resonates on every page. The final image of Mr Biswas's ramshackle house — imperfect, mortgaged, entirely his own — remains one of literature's most quietly devastating and triumphant conclusions.
Author: V S Naipaul
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Andre Deutsch, London
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 5th pr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
Born into poverty in colonial Trinidad, Mohun Biswas spends the whole of his life consumed by one desperate, burning ambition: to own a house of his own. A House for Mr Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's towering masterwork — a richly comic yet profoundly moving chronicle of one man's fierce struggle for independence, identity, and dignity against the suffocating grip of the Tulsi family into which he marries. Set against the vibrant and turbulent backdrop of mid-twentieth-century Trinidad, the novel maps four decades of Mr Biswas's life with extraordinary detail and satirical precision. Naipaul's prose is both exuberant and elegiac, weaving sharp social observation with deep psychological insight into the postcolonial condition — the ache of displacement, the tyranny of dependency, and the universal human need to lay claim to one's own corner of the world. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language, it draws clear parallels to Naipaul's own father and upbringing, lending it an autobiographical urgency that resonates on every page. The final image of Mr Biswas's ramshackle house — imperfect, mortgaged, entirely his own — remains one of literature's most quietly devastating and triumphant conclusions.