A House for Mr Biswas Katherine Langrish Unflinching in its vision of

Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care

and ideals

Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park

I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed

not just with her people

A House for Mr Biswas Katherine Langrish Unflinching in its vision ofA House for Mr Biswas is V. S. Naipauls unforgettable fourth book and the early masterpiece of his brilliant career. Born the wrong way and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his forty six years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently