Mr. Biswas accepts a position as driver at Green Vale, one of the Tulsis' sugar estates. He is given a single room in a long barracks. As soon as he sees it, he resolves to build his own house. It will be a proper house, not a shack with mud walls, earthen floor and trees for rafters with a grass roof. The room the family inherits in the barracks is wallpapered with old newspapers. Mr. Biswas lies in bed and reads the stories beginning, "Amazing scenes were witnessed yesterday when. . . " He adds a few signs of his own, slogans from Hindi meetings carefully lettered on cardboard. Shama and the children continue to stay at Hanuman House for weeks on end, instead of in the cramped barracks.....
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