A House for Mr.Biswas

Paperback, 200 pages

Published Jan. 3, 2003 by Picador.

ISBN:
978-0-330-48719-1
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4 stars (9 reviews)

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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4 stars

It is really difficult for me to rate this book. I dont think that it is bad, at all. It just lacks on characters that are likable and that makes reading this book much harder than others. I appreciated the theme of the book: Houses. Everything relevant in Mr Biswas life occurs in a house. Throughout his life he struggles to build is own one for himself and his family. The book, which takes place in Trinidad in the first half of the 20th century, has different chapters and each of them describes the part of Mr Biswas life in another House. We follow him, when he looses his father in his first place, until he finally dies in his own house. Between these two events the reader joins his journey. How he meets his wife and ends up living with her huge family where he gets mainly surpressed.
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  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction