A House for Mr. Biswas
Uitgeverij: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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Uitvoering: | Paperback |
Taal: | Engels |
Staat van het boek: | Licht beschadigd |
Aantal Pagina's: | 640 |
Afmetingen: | 128x198x46 |
Verschijningsdatum: | Maart 2022 |
EAN: | 9781529077193 |
Omschrijving
Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century’s finest novels, a classic that evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.
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 the dissolution of his family. Wanting to flirt with a beautiful woman, he is bullied into an unhappy ma