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A Bend in the River (Picador) (Paperback)
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Short Description for A Bend in the RiverThe great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Full description- Publisher: PICADOR
- Published: 01 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780330522991 ISBN 10: 033052299X
- Sales rank: 48,681
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Full description for A Bend in the River
'Brilliant and terrifying' Observer Set in an unnamed African country, the book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent's remote interior and is selling sundries little more than this and that, really to the natives. This spot, this 'bend in the river', is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. 'Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.' Elizabeth Hardwick 'Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit' John Updike
