A House for Mr. Biswas

A House for Mr. Biswas"The Nobel Prize winner's first great novel" (Barack Obama), 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 to another after the drowning death of his father, for

"The Nobel Prize winner's first great novel" (Barack Obama), 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 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 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. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/2001
ISBN: 9780375707162
Pages: 576
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.28w x 0.99d

Review Citations: New York Times 03/18/2001 pg. 24
Entertainment Weekly 01/07/2011 pg. 74
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 102

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 43272 / House for Mr. Biswas
Reading Level: 6.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 33