A house for Mr. Biswas

By:

Naipaul, V. S

Material type:

TextPublication details: Knopf, [1995] switherlandEdition: 1st edDescription: 564 pContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780679444589

Subject(s):

Biography

DDC classification:

823.914

Dissertation note: The book that turned the gentle satirist of the Caribbean into a major literary figure, this is the story of a man who, without a single asset, enters a life devoid of opportunity; his tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world. His most widely read novel.

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The book that turned the gentle satirist of the Caribbean into a major literary figure, this is the story of a man who, without a single asset, enters a life devoid of opportunity; his tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world. His most widely read novel.

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