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 | V. S. Naipaul, Africa, Postcolonialism | 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
A Bend in the River - The Booker Prizes Accompanied by Metty, a son of one of the family’s slaves, he travels deep into the heart of the continent and becomes a trader in a town on a bend in a river
NOVEL A Bend In The River Summary By V. S. Naipaul Set in an unnamed African country, the novel follows the journey of Salim, an Indian trader, as he navigates the turbulent waters of change in a society grappling with its colonial past and uncertain future
Analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River A Bend in the River is V S Naipaul’s (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) masterwork of displacement and dispossession, a summary statement from a distinguished writing career documenting what John Updike has called “one of the contemporary world’s great subjects—the mingling of its peoples ”