Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0-330-48719-1 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0330487191 |
No of pages | 623 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Picador |
Published Date | 03 Jan 2003 |
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018, most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vida Naipaul, was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.
He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels.
He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. In 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, Trinidad and Tobago's highest national honor.
He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the late 19th century, Naipaul's grandparents had emigrated from India to work in Trinidad's plantations as indentured servants.
His breakthrough novel A House for Mr. Biswas was published in 1961. On the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, he dedicated it to Patricia Anne Hale, to whom he was married from 1955 until her death in 1996, and who had served as first reader, editor, and critic of his writings.
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A House for Mr. Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohan Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity.
Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsa family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.
Heartrending and darkly comic, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. 'A marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels' Newsweek