A Bend in the River
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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January 15, 2002
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood…
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul; Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul
Between Father and Son
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul