A House for Mr.Biswas
953
Total Points
#442
- Pages
- 562
- Genres
- Literary Fiction India Post Colonial
- Award(s)
- Nobel Prize in Literature (2001)
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...
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Feb 20th, 2018
This was haunting....I was, however, underwhelmed. I had a very hard time getting into this book....it was well worth the effort but I expected more.
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