"Naipaul has constructed a marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." – Newsweek – ReviewA gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novelsA 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 ...
Esta novela cuenta la historia de Ganesh Ramsumair, sanador y m?stico, desde sus humildes or?genes hasta que obtiene la fama y el reconocimiento. Sus primeros d?as en el colegio. Su intento de convertirse en profesor. Su boda con Leela, la hija del tendero Ramlogan. Un d?a descubre su verdadera vocaci?n: sanador m?stico, curador de almas. Se convierte en un maestro espiritual y la gente de Trinidad lo rodea para escuchar sus palabras. Con el tiempo se dedicar? a la pol?tica. Funda su propio peri?dico, es elegido miembro del comit? legislativo y finalmente es galardonado con la Orden del Imperio Brit?nico.En esta primera novela est? 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 pol?ticas 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
