A House for Mr. Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
Taste attributes: dramacomedyfresh & originallinearemotive & stirringempowerment/personal growthtroubled leadscomplex relationship
Boxlist takeA fresh novel, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like surprises over comfort.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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3.3 / 5
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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.
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- Author
- V. S. Naipaul
- Published
- 1961
- Pages
- 548
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- Open Library
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