Synopsis
A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul’s vivid exploration of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence. With an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life...
Details
20 February 2020352 pages
9781529014099Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brillianceElizabeth Hardwick, author of Sleepless Nights
Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spiritJohn Updike, author of Rabbit, Run
Brilliant and terrifyingObserver
