A House for Mr Biswas

For Mohun Biswas, success means the wonder and audacity of having a house and portion of the earth all his own. But the odds are all against him. As he moves from job to job - from sugar-cane cutting to sign-writing to muck-raking journalism; as he acquires a wife, Shama, and four children; as he struggles through illness, despair and frustration to escape from the restless household of his contentious in-laws, Mr Biswas's ambition becomes ever more remote…

Published 1975.

Binding of book is loose. Heavy foxing, darkening, shelfwear, moderate creasing and several waterstains on covers of book. Streak of pen on back cover of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pencil, heavy foxing and few waterstains on insides of covers. Heavy foxing on certain pages.