House for Mister Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

Author:V.S. Naipaul
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9780375707162
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2001-12-15T23:44:31+00:00

The thin, short-winded and repetitive cry of the baby hardly made itself heard outside the Rose Room. The midwife no longer squatted in the hall and smoked. She was busy. She washed, she cleaned, she watched and ruled. After nine days she was paid and dismissed. The sisters told Anand and Savi, ‘You have a new sister. Somebody else to get a share of your father’s property.’ And they told Anand, ‘You are lucky. You are still the only boy. But wait. One day you will get a brother, and he will cut off your nose.’

Mr Biswas mixed and drank Sanatogen, drank table-spoonfuls of Ferrol and, in the evenings, glasses of Ovaltine. One day he remembered his fingernails. When he looked he saw they were whole, unbitten. There were still the periods of darkness, the spasms of panic; but now he knew they were not real and because he knew this he overcame them. He remained in the Blue Room, feeling secure to be only a part of Hanuman House, an organism that possessed a life, strength and power to comfort which was quite separate from the individuals who composed it.

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