A House for Mr Biswas By V.S. Naipaul You handed me all your

You handed me all your broken pieces but darling

Which comes in handy when their first ride--on the very same vessel that demolished Earth to make way for a hyperspacial freeway--ends disastrously (they are booted out of an airlock)

Vodafone Crossword Fiction Award Winner 2004 About the Book: The Hungry Tide From the author of The Glass Palace

thieves and criminals

three-armed ex-President of the Galaxy

A House for Mr Biswas By V.S. Naipaul You handed me all yourBorn the 'wrong way' and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have been met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes