A Bend in the River

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

A Bend in the River

By V. S. Naipaul

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Post-colonial Africa is dissected with pitiless lucidity in this disturbing novel about an outsider, the young Indian trader, Salim, who has moved from the coastal settlement where he grew up to an unnamed country in the African interior (largely based on the Democratic Republic of Congo), settling on that very bend in the river where Conrad had set his Heart of Darkness some seventy years before. Salim enters a ghost town, once a flourishing European outpost, which is fast returning to the bush...Show more

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ISBN

9781841593913

Publisher

Everyman

Published year

2019

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Original title

A Bend in the River

Format

Hardcover

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