Mr Biswas has been told since the day of his birth that misfortune will follow him - and so it has. Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and thf dissolution of his family. Wanting simply to flirt with a beau woman, he ends up married to her, and is promptly swallow up by her domineering family. But in spite of endless setbac and no small amount of disrespect, Mr Biswas is determinei to stand apart, to achieve independence, to own a house ol his own.

A House for Mr Biswas is Nobel Prize in Literature winner V Naipauls unforgettable masterpiece. Heart-rending and vei funny, it has been hailed as one of the twentieth centurys f novels, a classic that evokes a mans quest for autonomy ag the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.