A House for Mr. Biswas (Penguin Modern Classics)

by V.S.Naipaul (Author), IanBuruma (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $5.31

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $5.63

  The book that first brought Naipaul worldwide acclaim, this richly comic novel tells the moving story of a man without a single asset who enters a life devoid of opportunity, and whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $18.74

• New

  Hardcover
  1995

  $17.10

  In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.