{"product_id":"a-house-for-mr-biswas","title":"A House for Mr. Biswas","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous--and endless--struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA heartrending, dark yet comedic novel, \u003ci\u003eA House for Mr. Biswas \u003c\/i\u003emasterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0375707166\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780375707162\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Naipaul, V. S.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Mar 2001)","offer_id":46356664516805,"sku":"9780375707162","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780375707162.jpg?v=1781309990","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/a-house-for-mr-biswas","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}