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A House For Mr. Biswas

Author: V.S. Naipaul.

A House For Mr. Biswas

Author: V.S. Naipaul.

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Item #: D13117
Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780375707162
In his 46 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 to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But in this 1961 comedy of manners b... More
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In his 46 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 to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But in this 1961 comedy of manners by Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul, when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous—and endless—struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.


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