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A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
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‘A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion’ Anthony Burgess A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul’s unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the ‘wrong way’ and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six 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, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi 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 has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels and this triumph of resilience, persistence and dignity masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. ‘A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels’ Newsweek
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VS Naipaul is dear to my heart as he is a Trinidadian and I am part Trinidadian. To me this is his best work as it combines the genres of novel writing and memoir writing. A house for Mr Biswas is often interpreted as the biography of Naipaul's father but it can just be read without making that connection if you are not familiar with Naipaul's life and work. This will also appeal to anybody who has links to Trinidad or indeed anyone who is interested in Trinidad or West Indian culture.
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After finally getting a copy of V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas, it was not at all as I had expected - it was a hundred times better. The pure comedy with which the pathos is matched leaves you at once sad and uplifted. If ever there was a testament to the dignity of life and the power of hope, this is it. Be warned, there are aspects of what to most of us nowadays are unpalatable factors of a deeply patriarchal, diaspora culture, not least the many wife beatings and child floggings we are witness to. Yet we sense that Mohun (Mr Biswas) has an instinctive abhorence of such violence and we soon realise that in spite of his calling them his 'trap', he loves his wife and children, to the extent that he has devoted his life to a dream of acquiring a proper house for them all, away from the power-laden dependency on his in-laws, the Tulsis. This is a tale of survival and more, it is a testament to Hope, I thoroughly recommend it.
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