{"product_id":"una-casa-para-el-senor-biswas-a-house-for-mr-biswas","title":"Una casa para el señor Biswas \/ A House for Mr. Biswas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConsiderada la obra m\u0026amp;aacute;s significativa del Premio Nobel de Literatura V.S. Naipaul, esta novela retrata la imposibilidad de los inmigrantes de integrarse en una cultura colonial y seguir manteniendo sus ra\u0026amp;iacute;ces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNaipaul nos ofrece la historia de un hombre educado para pandit en su peque\u0026amp;ntilde;a comunidad de Trinidad, pero que no atendi\u0026amp;oacute; esta llamada y acab\u0026amp;oacute; por aprender el oficio de periodista, que al final fue incapaz de mantener. Pierde su empleo. Su vocaci\u0026amp;oacute;n aparece y desaparece sin llegar a hacerse realidad. Tiene tendencia a ataques de letargia, a apoyarse en la fortaleza de los dem\u0026amp;aacute;s, a expresar su humillaci\u0026amp;oacute;n con una conducta arisca.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePero su resentimiento colonial persiste, su deseo de algo m\u0026amp;aacute;s, de una casa, de una historia. No deja de luchar contra el abyecto abrazo de la familia de su mujer. Adquiere casas: casas desvencijadas, insatisfactorias, mal construidas. Pero son suyas, y en ellas es, si bien temporalmente, inexpugnable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;ldquo;A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.\u0026amp;rdquo; \u0026amp;mdash;\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous\u0026amp;mdash;and endless\u0026amp;mdash;struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA heartrending, dark yet comedic novel, \u003ci\u003eA House for Mr. Biswas\u003c\/i\u003e masterfully evokes a man\u0026amp;rsquo;s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49741502513379,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788497592277","price":144.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/e4ebe3917f1f-9788497592277.jpg?v=1789607789","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/una-casa-para-el-senor-biswas-a-house-for-mr-biswas","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}