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Title: A Very Entertaining Read
Review: I was assigned this book for a graduate course in English and it is one of the very few which I thoroughly enjoyed. The book follows all 46 years of the Indo-Caribbean Mr. Biswas' life in Trinidad. Mr. Biswas is a poor sign painter who got tricked into marriage to a woman with a large, annoying extended family. He tries to make a life for himself on his terms, but ends up relying on his in-laws more than he would like to. Because of the setting, the characters often speak in dialect (which is not very difficult to understand), and Mr. Biswas can be relied upon to come up with a funny comeback to the other, more pompous characters in the novel. This book is great on many levels-it can be enjoyed as a "beach read" or seriously studied as a great novel-either way, I thoroughly recommend it.
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