A House for Mr Biswas
by NAIPAUL, V.S
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0140030255
- ISBN 13
- 9780140030259
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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Synopsis
V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas tells the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian, who struggles as he yearns for a place he can call home following the death of his father. Homeless and loveless, he wanders from place to place, from one type of work to another, with every small success matched by a humiliation. A House for Mr. Biswas is primarily a sharply drawn look at life that uses postcolonial perspectives to view a vanished colonial world. The novel—Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide— is ranked 72nd on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is listed in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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I read this book in high school and will be reading again. This time from a mature perspective and will then give a critique
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- Bookseller
- Mainly Fiction (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 038485
- Title
- A House for Mr Biswas
- Author
- NAIPAUL, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0140030255
- ISBN 13
- 9780140030259
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.