This tells the story continual struggle of Mr Biswas who wants to live his life with the opposing forces of obligation to family and the desire for independence as he struggles to delineate himself from the larger identity of the family that he is born into and then of the family that he marries into and the desire to have his own house!
It's not a page-turner - in fact in parts the plot is barely perceivable at all. However, this fits in well with the realism - the monotony of Mr Biswas' life!
The descriptions of family life, of community, and of the natural and social landscape of mid-twentieth Trinidad are beautiful.
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