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A House for Mr. Biswas
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A universal story of the search for home and identity, and also a pointed take on class and colonialism and a Caribbean that few had seen before this was first published in 1961. An epic tale of man vs. world, built from the small details of daily life.
In 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 weake...