A House for Mr Biswas
06 March 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Heart-rending and darkly comic, V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of postcolonial Trinidad.
Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him – and so it has. Meaning only to...
Details
06 March 2025640 pages
9781035038602Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[A] great novelBarack Obama
Naipaul’s masterpiece . . . [he has a] journalist’s eye for detail and a Dickensian gift for portraitureMichiko Kakutani
A work of great comic powerAnthony Burgess
[A House for Mr Biswas] is a novel of epic length [and] formal perfection . . . it is one of the imperishable novels of the twentieth centuryTeju Cole
