ID | 014299 |
Call Number | 823.914/NAI |
Title Proper | A house for Mr. Biswas |
Language | ENG |
Author | Naipaul, V.S. |
Publication | New York, Vintage international, 2001. |
Description | 564p Red and blue spine |
Note | Hailed as one of the 20th century's greatest novels, the story traces the quest of Mr. Mohun Biswas to buy his own home. Having spent most of his forty-six years striving for independence, shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father(for which he is inadvertently responsible), Mr.Biswas takes on myriad vocations in a desperate struggle to weaken the hold of his wife's domineering family. |
Standard Number | 0375707166 |
Price. Qualification | $15.95(Pb) |
Classification Number | 823.914 |
Key Words | IBDP ; Middle aged men - Fiction ; East Indians - Trinidad and Tobago - Fiction ; Home ownership - Fiction ; Homeowners - Fiction ; Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) - Fiction |