A Bend In the River by V. S. Naipaul
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(Paperback - Reissue)
- Pub. Date: March 1989
- 288pp
- Sales Rank: 33,771
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 1989
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Format: Paperback, 288pp
- Sales Rank: 33,771
- Series: Vintage International Series
- ISBN-13: 9780679722021
- ISBN: 0679722025
- Edition Description: Reissue
Synopsis
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.
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Explores an isolated African town caught between the modern worlds, as seen through the eyes of an uprooted Indian who comes to live there.
The New York Times Books of the Century, reviewed May 13, 1979 - Irving Howe
. . .Naipaul offers no intimations of hope or signals of perspective. It may be that the reality he grapples with allows him nothing but grimness of voice. . . .[He] seems right nwo to be a writer beleaguered by his own truths, unable to get past them.
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In awarding V. S. Naipaul the Nobel prize for literature in 2001, the Swedish Academy called him a "literary circumnavigator" and a "modern philosophe." Both tags seem spot-on, given Naipaul's gift for describing -- in both his fictional and nonfictional studies of India, Africa, and beyond -- the humor and pathos of cultural collisions.
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Patient and Well Craftedby Anonymous
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December 10, 2007: This book unfolds slowly, so if you are looking for action, pass on it. The writing and character development are perfection. The tension in the main character's life is pressure cooked and patiently drawn out. An outstanding look at the effects of colonialism and Africa's struggle to exist on it's own. It's a beautiful book.
An Uninteresting Waste of Timeby Anonymous
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February 15, 2006: This book lacks the factor most books have of keeping the reader on the edge of their seat. The book seems to drag on forever, and at the turn of each page it had me wishing it was over. A dissapointingly poor novel.
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