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  • Published: 24 November 1995
  • ISBN: 9781857152135
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 564
  • RRP: $32.99

A House For Mr Biswas




In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him.

  • Published: 24 November 1995
  • ISBN: 9781857152135
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 564
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

V. S. Naipaul

Novelist and travel writer V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He studied at Oxford University, after graduation moving to London to work for the BBC. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas (also in Everyman's Library), The Enigma of Arrival and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. His works of non-fiction include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief and The Masque of Africa. In 1990 Naipaul received a knighthood and in 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 2018.

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