A Bend in the River - Wikipedia A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V S Naipaul The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised
A Bend in the River (2020) - IMDb A Bend in the River: Directed by Colin Broderick With John Duddy, Kathy Kiera Clarke, John McConnell, Brendan Broderick The story of a writer who returns to Ireland, after spending twenty five years in New York, to confront the ghosts of his past
A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul | Goodreads Salim has left the coast to make his way in the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives The place is 'a bend in the river'; it is Africa The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence
A Bend in the River (Vintage International) - amazon. com 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
A Bend in the River - Encyclopedia Britannica A Bend in the River, novel by V S Naipaul, published in 1979 Reminiscent of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, A Bend in the River chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of Africa as it explores the themes of personal exile and political and individual corruption
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Analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River Following Guerrillas (1975), set on a Caribbean island recently liberated from colonial rule, Naipaul returned to an African setting for A Bend in the River