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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.
- V. S. Naipaul
- 1979
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.
- V. S. Naipaul
- 1979
Alla curva del fiume (titolo originale in inglese A Bend in the River) è un romanzo dello scrittore premio Nobel per la letteratura Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, pubblicato nel 1979, in Italia nel 1982 da Rizzoli, ripubblicato con nuova traduzione nel 2015 con il titolo Sull'ansa del fiume da Adelphi.
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Trinidadian author V. S. Naipaul. The novel follows the life of Salim, an Indian Muslim merchant, as he moves to an unnamed African country to take over his family’s store.
13 lug 2020 · 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.”
20 set 1979 · In his 1979 novel, Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul captures the climate of disruptive & unpredictable transition from colony to a newly independent African country at the center of the continent.
A Bend in the River Full Book Summary. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, Salim, grew up in a community of ethnically Indian Muslims on the east African coast. As the novel opens, Salim explains how he came to leave his coastal home and move to an unnamed country in the African interior.
