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3.3 · 548 pages · First published 1961
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.
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- Distributed by Random House, Andre Deutsch, Vintage Books, Knopf, A. Deutsch, Penguin Books
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