A Bend in the River
Author(s): V. S. Naipaul
The great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. An acknowledged masterpiece by one of the towering literary giants of our time. When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts. Accompanied by Metty, the son of one of the family slaves, he travels deep into the heart of the continent to become a trader in the town on a bend in the river. As Salim strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly-independent state. V.S. Naipaul unfolds a powerful story of changing Africa, sustaining his superb characterization and dramatic invention right to the memorable conclusion. He uses the troubled continent as a text to preach magnificently upon the sickness of a world losing touch with its past. Together with A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend In The River established V.S. Naipaul as one of the pre-eminent novelists of our time.
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V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.238
- : 31 March 2011
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : V. S. Naipaul
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 823.914
- : 336