A House for Mr Biswas

　　'A work of great comic power qualified with firm andunsentimental compassion' - Anthony Burgess. "A House for MrBiswas" is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel and the earlymasterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the 'wrong way' andthrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a badomen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life strivingfor independence. But his determined efforts have met only withcalamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowningof his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr Biswasyearns for a place he can call home. He marries into thedomineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent,but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduousstruggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of hisown. Heartrending and darkly comic, "A House for Mr Biswas" hasbeen hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels andthis triumph of resilience, persistence and dignity masterfullyevokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop ofpost-colonial Trinidad. 'A marvellous prose epic that matches thebest nineteenth-century novels' - "Newsweek".