Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522991 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Bend in the River |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. With a preface by the author. <p>Set in an unnamed African country, 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 natives. <br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-04-01 |
