A bend in the river
First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new.
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- ISBN: 9780676975130
- Physical Description 278 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1989.
- Copyright ©1979.
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| Formatted Contents Note: | The Second Rebellion -- The New Domain -- The Big Man -- Battle. |
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A Bend in the River
In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man -- an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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