A house for Mr. Biswas
- 1st ed.
- switherland Knopf, [1995]
- 564 p.
The book that turned the gentle satirist of the Caribbean into a major literary figure, this is the story of a man who, without a single asset, enters a life devoid of opportunity; his tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world. His most widely read novel.