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1961•548 pages•Published•UND•User Reviews

A House for Mr. Biswas

3.3/ 5
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Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds himself thwarted by his wife’s family and by his own ineptitude and over-reaching ambition.

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Book Details

First Published

1961

Pages

548 pages

Rating

3.3 / 5

Ratings

3

Editions

22

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Language

UND, ENG

Status

Published

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