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A House For Mr. Biswas.
by Naipaul, V.S
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About This Item
New York: McGraw Hill, 1961. For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul. Whatever we may want in a novelist is to be found in his books: an almost Conradian gift for tensing a story, a serious involvement with human issues, a supple English prose, a hard-edged wit, a personal vision of things...[He is] the world's writer, a master of language and perception" (The New York Times Book Review). Listed on both Modern Library and Time's 100 great novels of the twentieth century.
Synopsis
V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas tells the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian, who struggles as he yearns for a place he can call home following the death of his father. Homeless and loveless, he wanders from place to place, from one type of work to another, with every small success matched by a humiliation. A House for Mr. Biswas is primarily a sharply drawn look at life that uses postcolonial perspectives to view a vanished colonial world. The novel—Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide— is ranked 72nd on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is listed in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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On Aug 31 2009, Madmom said:
I read this book in high school and will be reading again. This time from a mature perspective and will then give a critique
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2783
- Title
- A House For Mr. Biswas.
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- A House For Mr. Biswas Signed First Edition, House For Mr. Biswas First Edition, Nobel, signed first edition, V.S. Naipaul
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