by Patrick Marnham (Introduction), V. S. Naipaul (Author)
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent?s remote interior and is selling sundries - little more than this and that, really - to the natives.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: 1
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 12 Sep 2019
ISBN 10: 1841593915
ISBN 13: 9781841593913