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Title: Bend in the River, A: Picador Classic
Author: NAIPAUL V S
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 30/04/2019
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
Set in an unnamed African country, Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul's <i>A Bend in the River </i>is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes <i>The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.</i> 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 locals.
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.
Series: Picador Classic
ISBN: 9781529014099
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 256