A note reading "I love you and I want to talk to you" is intercepted and interpreted as a marriage proposal in this novel, which the title character regrets having made immediately thereafter and for the rest of his life. The title character's in-laws include the "gods" Owad and Shekhar, who are always fed fish in the famil
A note reading "I love you and I want to talk to you" is intercepted and interpreted as a marriage proposal in this novel, which the title character regrets having made immediately thereafter and for the rest of his life. The title character's in-laws include the "gods" Owad and Shekhar, who are always fed fish in the family compound, while the other children get only rice. That title character inadvertently causes his father's death by drowning; later in the book, a similar series of events results in the near-drowning of his own son Anand, the author's alter-ego, who ends up earning a scholarship to study in England. For ten points, what is this novel of an endlessly frustrated Trinidadian journalist married into the domineering Tulsi clan, who accomplishes his life goal only under disadvantageous circumstances, a work of V.S. Naipaul?
A note reading "I love you and I want to talk to you" is intercepted and interpreted as a marriage proposal in this novel, which the title character regrets having made immediately thereafter and for the rest of his life.
A {House} for {Mr. Biswas}