A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul a ghost estate outside Dublin

a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built

Whatever your views on Castro are

with her brother Swaraj Man and their father Kiran Man Chitraker

But when a daring stranger arrives in town

Normal People is a 2018 novel by the Irish author Sally Rooney

A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul a ghost estate outside DublinBorn 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