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A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion. (Anthony Burgess). A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipauls unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the wrong way and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen- Mohun Biswas has spent his forty-six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father- for which he is inadvertently responsible- Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family- on whom he becomes indignantly dependent- but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic- A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth centurys finest novels and this triumph of resilience- persistence and dignity masterfully evokes a mans quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad. A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels. (Newsweek)....