A House for Mr Biswas
20 August 2020Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.
Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled...
720 pages
9781529013016Details
20 August 2020720 pages
9781529013016Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassionAnthony Burgess
A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novelsNewsweek
Why, at 20, did I fling A House for Mr Biswas across the room, where it sat unfinished for 10 years, only to pick it up at 30, devour it practically in one sitting, and think it as near to perfect as a book gets?Joshua Ferris, Guardian
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