"On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of… - V. S. Naipaul

It made smuggling easy; but I was nervous of getting involved, because a government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey

Confronted with her, I shed old fantasies. My body obeyed its new impulses, discovered in itself resources that answered my new need.