A Bend in the River Paperback by V. S. Naipaul

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2002-01-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780676975130
• Item Weight: 170.1 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.18 x 0.61 cm

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

About the Author

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival and An Area of Darkness. He lives in Wiltshire, England. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.