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A House for MR Biswas. V.S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
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Description for A House for MR Biswas. V.S. Naipaul
Paperback. A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 44. Weight in Grams: 454.
A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V. S. Naipaul's unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and darkly comic, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.
He was struck again and again by the wonder of being in his own house, the audacity of it: to walk in through his own front gate, to bar entry to whoever he wished, to close his doors and windows every night.
Mr. Biswas has been told since the day of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330522892
SKU
V9780330522892
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About V. S. Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of ... Read more
Reviews for A House for MR Biswas. V.S. Naipaul
A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion.
Anthony Burgess A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels.
Newsweek
Anthony Burgess A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels.
Newsweek