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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Achingly good I never understood why it says this is a `comic' masterpiece on the cover. It's true that A House for Mr Biswas is often funny and always biting, but as a novel this is tragic and grindingly dark stuff. Even the happy ending (given away at the beginning of the book; I'm not spoiling anything for you here), only is a happy end of sorts. Perhaps it is the inexhaustible undercurrent of cheerfulness amid the squalor that makes this so readable, and on the surface a `comic' work. The novel describes the... more info
Moving and at the same time very funny Poor Mr Biswas. What a monster he seems with his adopted family, but how true he is to the way all of us feel when our relatives get too much for us. His dream to have a place on this earth to call his own is a universal desire and his achievement just before he shuffles off his own mortal coil brings the novel to a conclusion that, unlike too many other novels, feels complete.
40 years on- still fresh as paint I've just finished re-reading House for Mr. Biswas and it brought on a wave of almost unbearable nostalgia. It's extraordinary how I remember characters from this book whom I first met thirty years ago and who, to my astonishement, have continues to inhabit me all these intervening years. Thus re-reading Biswas produced an illusion of double vision- the perspective of as young adolescent being superimposed upon my jaded middle aged eyes.
Having,in the meanwhile had the chance to read Naipaul's... more info
Exposition of post-colonial life `AHFMB' is the story of Mohun Biswas, a Trinidadian of Indian descent, and his lifelong search for a place to call his own. The book follows his life from his birth, to his early life as he searches for a career to call his own, to his marriage and life with his stifling in-laws, to his first (very belated) attempts at complete independence and finally to his death (with which the book actually begins). Mr Biswas is an everyman: not too bright, not too good-looking, not too strong, and his attempts to make... more info
