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A House for Mr. Biswas

V. S. Naipaul · 2003

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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.

Book details

Year
2003
Language
English
Publisher
Picador
Editions
3
Pages
200
ISBN
9780330487191

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