A House for Mr. Biswas

By: V. S. Naipaul

Fiction

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...