A house for Mr. Biswas

Description:

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: Home ownership,  Journalists,  Family,  East Indians,  Middle aged men,  Homeowners,  Fiction,  Trinidad and Tobago,  Port of Spain,  Middle-aged men,  Außenseiter,  Inder,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Caribbean area, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, humorous,  Fiction, humorous, general,  Families

Places: Trinidad and Tobago,  Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago)

Times: 20th century