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A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (English) Paperback Book
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- ISBN-13
- 9780679722021
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679722025
ISBN-13
9780679722021
eBay Product ID (ePID)
819206
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bend in the River
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1989
Topic
Small Town & Rural, Literary, Political, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
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Reviews
"For sheer abundance of talent, there ca hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." -- The New York Times Book Review "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." --Elizabeth Hardwick, "For sheer abundance of talent, there ca hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." -The New York Times Book Review "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." -Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." -Elizabeth Hardwick, "For sheer abundance of talent, there ca hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." The New York Times Book Review "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." Elizabeth Hardwick, "For sheer abundance of talent, there ca hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." - The New York Times Book Review "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." -Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." -Elizabeth Hardwick, "For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." -- The New York Times Book Review "A brilliant novel." -- The New York Times "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." -- Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." --Elizabeth Hardwick, "For sheer abundance of talent, there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V.S. Naipaul." -- The New York Times Book Review "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." --Walter Clemons, Newsweek "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today." --Elizabeth Hardwick
Synopsis
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 convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions., 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 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. 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. "Confirms Naipaul's position as one of the best writers now at work." -- Newsweek, A "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) from the Nobel Prize-winning author that 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 convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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