CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS One Of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Heart-rending And Darkly Comic, V. S. Naipaul’s A House For Mr Biswas Has Been Hailed As One Of The Twentieth Century’s Finest Novels, A Classic That Evokes A Man’s Quest For Autonomy Against The Backdrop Of Post-colonial Trinidad. Mr Biswas Has Been Told Since The Day Of His Birth That Misfortune Will Follow Him – And So It Has. Meaning Only To Avoid Punishment, He Causes The Death Of His Father And The Dissolution Of His Family. Wanting Simply To Flirt With A Beautiful Woman, He Ends Up Marrying Her. But In Spite Of Endless Setbacks, Mr Biswas Is Determined To Achieve Independence, And So He Begins The Gruelling Struggle To Buy A Home Of His Own. Part Of The Picador Collection, A New Series Showcasing The Best Of Modern Literature.