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A House for Mr Biswas
by Naipaul, V.S
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Lower Hutt, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 531 pages, name on front endpaper, slight foxing on endpapers. The dust jacket has only partially survived. Most of the front cover is present and the front and rear flaps have been backed onto this surviving front cover. Also included are 3 newspaper clippings about V.S. Naipaul from the 1970s. One article from 1971 says: "it can only be a matter of time before the world awards him the only major literary prize he has yet to win." It actually took him another 30 years to win the Nobel Prize..
Synopsis
V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas tells the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian, who struggles as he yearns for a place he can call home following the death of his father. Homeless and loveless, he wanders from place to place, from one type of work to another, with every small success matched by a humiliation. A House for Mr. Biswas is primarily a sharply drawn look at life that uses postcolonial perspectives to view a vanished colonial world. The novel—Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide— is ranked 72nd on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is listed in TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923).
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Reviews
On Aug 31 2009, Madmom said:
I read this book in high school and will be reading again. This time from a mature perspective and will then give a critique
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tinakori Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1644
- Title
- A House for Mr Biswas
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS, V.S. NAIPAUL LITERATURE
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