A House for Mr Biswas

A House for Mr Biswas

by V. S. Naipaul

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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.

ISBN: 9780330487191

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Barack Obama

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"Great novel about growing up in Trinidad and the challenge of post-colonial identity."

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