Naipaul’s breakthrough novel is a marvellous comic tale of a Trinidadian of Indian descent striving to improve his lot. Continually making big plans for himself he constantly finds himself thwarted by his wife’s family and by his own ineptitude and over-reaching ambition.
Editions · 5
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1976 · Penguin (Non-Classics)
592 pp · EN
9780140030259
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1995 · Knopf
564 pp · EN
9780679444589
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1995 · David Campbell Publishers
564 pp · EN
9781857152135
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2001 · Vintage International
564 pp · EN
9780375707162
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2003 · Picador
200 pp · EN
9780330487191
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