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Naipaul Resurrected

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Naipaul Resurrected wiki writes: A House for Mr Biswas  is a 1961  novel  by  V. S. Naipaul , significant as Naipaul's first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas, an  Indo-Trinidadian  who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries into the Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it, and who finally sets the goal of owning his own house. Drawing some elements from the life of Naipaul's father, [1] [2]  the work is primarily a sharply drawn look at life that uses  postcolonial perspectives to view a vanished colonial world. I first read V.S. Naipaul as a child, hiding from the scorching Caribbean heat in my grandparents' concrete house. I picked up A House for Mr. Biswas, as my Uncle Vincent was in Form 5 at Diego Sec and getting ready to do his O'levels- there were many wonderful books such as Wild Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (definitely up there- it's the story that addresses...