Ideas that Naipaul repeated in many of his later travel accounts first appear in this book. The first of its kind was The Middle Passage (1962) it recounts Naipaul's travel experience in the West Indies. The bleak world of despair and corruption that Naipaul portrayed in A Bend in the River, a novel, he amplified manifold in his travel narratives, a genre that permits direct authorial commentary. Biswas narrates the life of its eponymous hero who resembles Seepersad and works as a journalist and an author but has to depend mostly on his in-laws to make ends meet.The house he builds at the end for himself and his family in Trinidad is as flimsy as his life has been there. Other books set in the colonial Caribbean island followed, the most significant of which was A House for Mr. The work combines satire and humor effectively. His first work, The Mystic Masseur, appeared in 1957 it treats the rise of a politician whose early career includes stints as a writer and a faith healer. For a while, he worked for the Caribbean service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. After graduation, he did not return to Trinidad and chose instead to remain in England.
Despite his father's failure to be an adequate provider-Seepersad Naipaul was prone to frequent bouts of depression as well-Naipaul received a fine education in Trinidad and secured a scholarship to study English literature at Oxford.
Born to Hindu parents in Trinidad, which, in the colonial scheme of things, occupied just a dot on the Empire's map, Naipaul grew up in a large extended family comprising several uncles, aunts, and many children, siblings as well as cousins.
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