Bend in the River (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Naipaul, V. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679602674 ISBN 13: 9780679602675

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1997

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Book by VS Naipaul

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In an African country that has suffered revolution and civil war and that is headed by a man of almost insane energy and crudity, one restless, reflective, and isolated villager and his friends uneasily submit to the tide of events

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hed in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's novels are about the struggle for existence in a world still colonial despite the breakup of the old Western empires," wrote Alfred Kazin.
   A Bend in the River is demonstration of V. S. Naipaul's status as one of the world's best novelists. The New York Times Book Review noted: "For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul." Elizabeth Hardwick, who has provided a
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The s

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679602674
• ISBN 13: 9780679602675
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418