by V.S. Naipaul · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592277
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Considered the most significant work of Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul, 'A House for Mr. Biswas' portrays the impossibility of immigrants integrating into a colonial culture while maintaining their roots. Naipaul offers us the story of a man educated to be a pandit in his small community in Trinidad, but who did not heed this call and ended up learning the trade of journalist, which in the end he was unable to maintain. Through the life of Mr. Biswas, the novel explores themes of identity, belonging, and the search for one's place in the world.
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer renowned for his works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.
