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A Bend in the River

Paperback • 2011 • English

A Bend in the River

By V. S. Naipaul

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About the book

Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River 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 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. ...Show more

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ISBN

9780330522991

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

A Bend in the River

Format

Paperback

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