An edition of A House for Mr. Biswas
(1961)
A House for Mr. Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
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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.
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Home ownership, Journalists, Family, East Indians, Middle aged men, Homeowners, Fiction, Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Middle-aged men, Außenseiter, Inder, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Caribbean area, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, generalTimes
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A house for Mr. Biswas
2001, Vintage International
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0375707166 9780375707162
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1984, Vintage Books, Vintage
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- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0394720504 9780394720500
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A house for Mr. Biswas
1983, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st Alfred A. Knopf ed.
039453400X 9780394534008
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"SHORTLY BEFORE he was born there had been another quarrel between Mr Biswas's mother Bipti and his father Raghu, and Bipti had taken her three children and walked all the way in the hot sun to the village where her mother Bissoondaye lived."
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