{"product_id":"a-house-for-mr-biswas-1","title":"A House for Mr. Biswas","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous--and endless--struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA heartrending, dark yet comedic novel, \u003ci\u003eA House for Mr. Biswas \u003c\/i\u003emasterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51814724829415,"sku":"9780375707162","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_9e3eabe1-1d15-4c1e-b591-54c004c20725.jpg?v=1771903044","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-house-for-mr-biswas-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}