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A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul · Booklabria

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A House for Mr. Biswas

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A House for Mr. Biswas

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First published: 1961
Editions: 21 in 2 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Family life
Families
Family
Humorous
Journalists
Caribbean area
Set in: Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
Time: 20th Century

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21 in 2 languages

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