A bend in the river
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Marnham, Patrick, writer of introduction.
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019., , ©1979.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 271 pages ; 21 cm
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction | FIC Naipaul | On MeL Loan | June 1, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019., , ©1979.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page xxv).
Description
"Widely hailed as Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul’s greatest work, A Bend in the River takes us deeply into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Salim is doubly an outsider in his new home—an unnamed country that resembles the Congo—by virtue of his origins in a community of Indian merchants on the coast of East Africa. Uncertain of his future, he has come to take possession of a local trading post he has naively purchased sight unseen. But what Salim discovers on his arrival is a ghost town, reduced to ruins in the wake of the recently departed European colonizers and in the process of being reclaimed by the surrounding forest. Salim struggles to build his business against a backdrop of growing chaos, conflict, ignorance, and poverty. His is a journey into the heart of Africa, into the same territory explored by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness nearly eighty years earlier—but witnessed this time from the other side of the tragedy of colonization. Salim discovers that the nation’s violent legacy persists, through the rise of a dictator who calls himself the people’s savior but whose regime is built on fear and lies. In this haunting masterpiece of postcolonial literature, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979, Naipaul gives us a convincing and disturbing vision of a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past."--inside cover
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Naipaul, V. S. 1., & Marnham, P. (2019). A bend in the river . Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 and Patrick, Marnham. 2019. A Bend in the River. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018 and Patrick, Marnham. A Bend in the River Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Naipaul, V. S. 1932-2018,, and Patrick Marnham. A Bend in the River Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
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