Summary

The book that first brought Naipaul worldwide acclaim, this richly comic novel tells the moving story of a man without a single asset who enters a life devoid of opportunity, and whose tumble-down house becomes a potent symbol of the search for identity in a postcolonial world.

Classification

• Dewey Decimal: 823.914

Book Details

• Edition Info: Library Binding; 2008-11-05

Subjects

• Literature & Fiction -- Literary

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