A House for Mr. Biswas

About this book

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.

Subjects

• außenseiter
• british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
• caribbean area, fiction
• east indians
• families
• family
• fiction
• fiction, family life
• fiction, humorous
• fiction, humorous, general
• homeowners
• home ownership
• inder
• journalists
• middle aged men
• middle-aged men
• port of spain
• trinidad and tobago