A House for Mr. Biswas
Mr Biswas is a man who is not naturally rebellious, but in whom rebellion is inspired by the forces of ritual, myth and custom. Though he has married into the family, Mr Biswas remains an outsider and refuses to follow the family in their habitual devotions.
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Review:
A work of great comic power, qualified with firm and unsentimental compassion (Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange)
A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels (Newsweek)
Book Description:
A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels (Newsweek)
A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
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- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1439571562
- ISBN 13 9781439571569
- BindingLibrary Binding
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