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A Bend in the River (1979)

by V. S. Naipaul

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: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.… (more)

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823.914Literature › English › English fiction › Modern Period › 1901-1999 › 1945-1999

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PR9272.N32Language and Literature › English › English Literature › English literature: Provincial, local, etc.

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