A House For Mr Biswas
By (Author) V S Naipaul
Everyman
Everyman's Library
24th November 1995
21st September 1995
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813
Hardback
564
Width 134mm, Height 210mm, Spine 32mm
634g
Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, t he outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his gra nder in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a hous e of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would r epress him. '
V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. Since he started writing in 1954 he has won many prizes including the booker prize for the novel In a Free State (1971). Among his works of non-fiction are Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981); Finding the Centre (1984); and A Turn in the South (1989). His novels include Guerillas, A Bend in the River and The Enigma of Arrival.