A House for Mr Biswas Author:Naipaul, V.S. 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-racking journalism; as he acquires a wife, Shama, and four children; as he struggles through illness, despair and frustrati... more »on to escape from the restless household of his contentious in-laws, Mr. Biswas's ambition becomes ever more remote...« less