V.S. Naipaul

Trinidad-born British novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent, author of A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River; awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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  1. 1. Una Casa Per Mr. Biswas

    An Indo-Trinidadian man born into poverty struggles against familial domination and social constraints to carve out an independent life, taking odd jobs and enduring humiliations while fixating on owning a house as proof of dignity and selfhood; his long, often comic and tragic quest to build a home becomes a measure of identity, resistance to fate, and the costs of survival in a shifting colonial society.