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A House for Mr Biswas

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06 March 2025
640 pages
9781035038602
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

[A] great novelBarack Obama
Naipaul’s masterpiece . . . [he has a] journalist’s eye for detail and a Dickensian gift for portraitureMichiko Kakutani
A work of great comic powerAnthony Burgess
[A House for Mr Biswas] is a novel of epic length [and] formal perfection . . . it is one of the imperishable novels of the twentieth centuryTeju Cole