A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS

by V. S Naipaul

$1,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961 but 1962 . First American Edition. A pleasing copy of the Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winner's fourth novel, and a key work of postcolonial literature. A Hindu born of an impoverished family on Trinidad, Mr. Biswas is a gentle, highly sensitive man, aware of his failings while longing desperately for independence and respect. His heritage is poverty, but his caste is Brahmin, and

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