A Bend in the River
Author: V.S. Naipaul
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn 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 vis….Read More
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