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From the Nobel Prizewinning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the authors father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth centurys finest novelsA marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenthcentury novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power NewsweekIn his fortysix 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 arduousand endlessstruggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his ownA heartrending, dark yet comedic novel, A House for Mr Biswas masterfully evokes a mans quest for autonomy against an emblematic postcolonial canvas
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ISBN10:0375707166
ISBN13: 9780375707162
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