A House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul
A house for Mr. Biswas is one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, and I’ve read thousands of books. AHFMB follows the life of Mr. Biswas from the moment he was born to the time when he dies. His life is very ordinary. Mr Biswas is an ambitionless man who just goes through his life trying to find some pleasure in small things. To call him ambitionless will not be entirely true, he has a half baked ambition in his heart, that is to have a house of his own. We are introduced, to the house he finally builds, in the prologue itself. The way Mr. Naipaul has described the house in the prologue is marvellous.
It is a slow book but every line of this book is excellent. This book is even listed in the course material for IAS examinations which is quite a surprise.
Read this book slowly and take pleasure in the wonderful writing of Mr Naipaul who won the Nobel Prize in literature in the year 2001.
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-Kunal Goel
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