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A Bend in the River: Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Contributor(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Author), Marnham, Patrick (Introduction by)

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ISBN: 110190819X     ISBN-13: 9781101908198
Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2019944084
Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.25" W x 8.25" L (1.00 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - African
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Demographic Orientation - Rural
- Demographic Orientation - Small Town
Features: Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 43271
Reading Level: 6.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 18.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Widely hailed as Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul's greatest work, A Bend in the River takes us deeply 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.

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.

 
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