When I think about the world he has described, it's hard to believe that VS Naipaul wrote this masterpiece in a North London flat over a period of three years between 1958 to 1960.  This is a complete and almost perfect novel according to many who know better than me.  At the time, Vidia Naipaul was a 28 years old young man, and a much greater glory was yet to come.  On a personal level, like Mr. Biswas, I have also felt from time to time, that I was born in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that the struggle will always continue to keep the world from grinding you into the dust.