A Bend in the River of Life

A Bend In The River

✍ Naipaul, Vidiadhar S 📂 Fiction 📅 1997 🏛 Modern Libr 🌐 English ⚖ 180 KB 👁 1 views

First published in 1979, *A Bend in the River* is a novel of the politics and society of post-colonial 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 flui

A Bend in the River

✍ Naipaul, V.S. 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Internati 🌐 English ⚖ 202 KB 👁 2 views

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 c

A bend in the river

✍ V. S. Naipaul 📂 Fiction 📅 1999 🏛 G.K. Hall 🌐 UND ⚖ 183 KB 👁 2 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the riv

A bend in the river

✍ V. S. Naipaul 📂 Fiction 📅 1999 🏛 G.K. Hall 🌐 UND ⚖ 182 KB 👁 3 views

EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Brilliant and terrifying' - "Observer". I had to be the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some bigger operation that made millions. I had to be the man who had planned it all, who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the riv

A Bend in the River

✍ Naipaul, V. S. 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2010 🏛 Vintage International 🌐 English ⚖ 190 KB 👁 2 views

'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

A Bend in the River

✍ Naipaul, V S 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 185 KB

A Bend in the River of Life

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