Naipaul wrote the book based on his own experiences as a child. Writing for The New York Review of Books in 1983, he stated that, "Of all my books A House for Mr. Biswas is the one closest to me." The book took him three years to write.[7]
Naipaul finished the final proofreading of the book in May 1961.[7] The book was first published in London by André Deutsch in 1961. McGraw Hill published the first US edition of the book in New York in the same year.[8]
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The protagonist of the story, Mohun Biswas, is an Indian born in rural Trinidad and is pronounced unlucky by the pundit at his birth due to the presence of six fingers and because he was born in the wrong way. Mohun goes through a series of life...
The protagonist of the story, Mohun Biswas, is an Indian born in rural Trinidad and is pronounced unlucky by the pundit at his birth due to the presence of six fingers and because he was born in the wrong way. Mohun goes through a series of life...
A very important theme in the book is the treatment of women. Though the majority of characters are women, the women are mostly treated as caretakers, conspirators, or just faces in the crowd. They hardly have any kind of aspirations. The...
