In this comic novel, Naipaul tells the story of Mohun Biswas, a Trinidadian of East Indian ancestry who stumbles into one misfortune after another as he searches for a house of his own. The experiences of Mr. Biswas bring to light such universal themes as the individual versus society and the search for self-identity.

A House for Mr. Biswas with Related Readings

V.S.Naipaul

Literature & Fiction

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

A House for Mr. Biswas and Related Readings

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Glencoe

V.S. Naipul describes his literary predicament as a West-Indian-born Indian writer, living in England, and reflects upon the social aspects of colonialism

The Overcrowded Barracoon

Penguin Books, Ltd.

As decribed in one of the reviews: ...An expatriate English couple and a West-Indian would-be revolutionary are the three main characters, and the agonizing (and mostly self-destructive) sexual and philosophic choices they are faced with ring true to life. The compromises and rationalizations they make to themselves and each other result in their irrevocable mental and moral deterioration. The fragility of the social setting in which Jane, Roche, and Jimmy find themselves leads to infidelity, sexual abuse, murder, and what can be just as horrifying as any of these, the voluntary surrender of one's soul..."

Guerrillas

Contemporary

Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed Edition

"Among the Believers" is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. 'The edgy exactitude of Naipaul's writing is both effortlessly classical and yet at the same time brilliantly contemporary, as sharp and lucid as a spear of glass...He is inimitable, truly great and truly deserving of the Nobel' - "Observer".

Among the Believers

Travel

Travel Writing

Finding the Center : Two Narratives

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

A Turn in the South [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1990] Naipaul, V.S. ...

A Turn in the South

Vintage

The book that first brought Naipaul worldwide acclaim, this richly comic novel tells the moving story of a man without a single asset who enters a life devoid of opportunity, and whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world.

A House for Mr. Biswas (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin

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The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

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