A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
640 pages
A work of great comic power qualified with firm and unsentimental compassionAnthony Burgess
A marvellous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novelsNewsweek
Naipaul’s masterpiece…[he has] a journalist’s eye for detail and a Dickensian gift for portraitureMichiko Kakutani