A house for Mr. Biswas - Naipaul, V. S. (Knopf, switherland, 1995)
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.
Keywords: Biography