A House for Mr Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul · 1961
Literary Fiction · ranked #39 in category
Mohun Biswas, a Trinidadian Hindu who has spent his life at the mercy of his wife's large, overbearing family, spends forty-six years trying to own a house — and with it, a self. Naipaul's vast, ironic novel is both a portrait of colonial life in Trinidad and an epic of one man's stubborn desire for dignity and autonomy.
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