"Naipaul has constructed a marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." – Newsweek – Review A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic, A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian. . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."-New York Times. “Intricate … poignant … fabulous … a potent blend of fact and fiction, autobiography, history, imagination.” — Washington Post Book World “Naipaul is an artful arranger. His technique is to layer memory and history so that the past is an iridescence that colors the present.” — Time “Whichever way the narrative takes us … characters, ideas, events [are] elegantly juggled, set down and picked up again with a technical brilliance that comes with a lifetime’s experience…. Brave … fascinating … A Way in the World is a beautiful lament.” — Caryl Phillips, New Republic “A Way in the World is full of Proustian moments, fragments of memory that, once recovered, open up past worlds that bear unexpectedly on the present…. There are many pleasures in this book: finely honed prose, wry humor, exact observation, rich anecdotes.” — Wall Street Journal “Naipaul, master of literature, is playing historical trickster for us.… His reasoning and presentation are flawless, styled in English at its purest.… One cannot help but be fascinated by this cast of the master’s dice.” — Philadelphia Inquirer

Esta novela cuenta la historia de Ganesh Ramsumair, sanador y místico, desde sus humildes orígenes hasta que obtiene la fama y el reconocimiento. Sus primeros días en el colegio. Su intento de convertirse en profesor. Su boda con Leela, la hija del tendero Ramlogan. Un día descubre su verdadera vocación: sanador místico, curador de almas. Se convierte en un maestro espiritual y la gente de Trinidad lo rodea para escuchar sus palabras. Con el tiempo se dedicará a la política. Funda su propio periódico, es elegido miembro del comité legislativo y finalmente es galardonado con la Orden del Imperio Británico. En esta primera novela está ya presente todo el mundo narrativo de V. S. Naipaul: el ascenso social, el descubrimiento de la cultura y la escritura, el mundo colonial, la falsedad de las políticas poscoloniales, la ternura de la vida cotidiana…

Winner of 1971 Booker Prize «V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times «A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker «The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New York Review