V S Naipaul

(Author)

A Bend in the River: Introduction by Patrick MarnhamHardcover, 3 December 2019

A Bend in the River: Introduction by Patrick Marnham
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Part of Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Print Length
312 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Date Published
3 Dec 2019
ISBN-10
110190819X
ISBN-13
9781101908198

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**Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author's greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. - "Brilliant." --*The New York Times


*Salim is doubly an outsider in his new home--an unnamed country that resembles the Congo--by virtue of his origins in a community of Indian merchants on the coast of East Africa. Uncertain of his future, he has come to take possession of a local trading post he has naively purchased sight unseen. But what Salim discovers on his arrival is a ghost town, reduced to ruins in the wake of the recently departed European colonizers and in the process of being reclaimed by the surrounding forest. Salim struggles to build his business against a backdrop of growing chaos, conflict, ignorance, and poverty. His is a journey into the heart of Africa, into the same territory explored by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness nearly eighty years earlier--but witnessed this time from the other side of the tragedy of colonization. Salim discovers that the nation's violent legacy persists, through the rise of a dictator who calls himself the people's savior but whose regime is built on fear and lies. In this haunting masterpiece of postcolonial literature, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979, Naipaul gives us a convincing and disturbing vision of a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past.

Product Details

Author:
V S Naipaul
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
DE
Date Published:
3 December 2019
Dimensions:
20.96 x 13.34 x 2.79 cm
ISBN-10:
110190819X
ISBN-13:
9781101908198
Language:
English
Pages:
312
Weight:
453.59 gm

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