From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel.
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a
scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College,
Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other
profession.
In 1990, V. S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to
literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen
British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature
in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in
Wiltshire, and died in 2018.
A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental
compassion
*Anthony Burgess*
A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century
novels
*Newsweek*
Naipaul’s masterpiece…[he has] a journalist’s eye for detail and a
Dickensian gift for portraiture
*Michiko Kakutani*
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