A House for Mr. Biswas
Home ownership
East Indians
Caribbean area, fiction
Middle-aged men
Fiction, humorous
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Journalists
Fiction, humorous, general
Fiction, family life
Family
Families
Fiction
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.
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