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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
A Bend in the River Summary - BookBrief At its core, A Bend in the River is the story of Salim, a young man of Indian descent, who leaves his coastal home to set up a shop in a remote town at a bend in a central African river There, he witnesses—and is swept up in—the chaos and transformation following the country’s independence
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 ”