London: David Campbell Publishers Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Ex-Library . Ex school library copy with usual stamps and marks inside, slight bowing to boards, unclipped DJ protected by clear library sleeve taped to inside covers. ; First printing of Everyman Millenium Library edition, 1995. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to black spine panel, gold place ribbon. Nice tight copy, no names inside, appears unread and unissued from the school library as returns label unstamped. DJ artwork uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Everyman's Library Classics; 608 pages; A comic masterpiece of social manners in a post-colonial society. Mr. Mohun Biswas of Trinidad, in his forty-sixth year on earth, triumphantly purchases his own house and becomes his own man. .

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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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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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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 30817
Title: A House for Mr Biswas
Author: Naipaul, V S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
ISBN 10: 1857152131
ISBN 13: 9781857152135
Publisher: David Campbell Publishers Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1995
Keywords: Ex-Library
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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