num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Bend in the River
titlecomplete: A Bend in the River
characters: Salim, Metty, Ferdinand (A Bend in the River), Father Huismans, Mahesh, Shoba, Indar, Raymond (A Bend in the River), Yvette (A Bend in the River), Zabeth, Nazruddin
genres: Fiction, India, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 17359
places: Africa
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage Canada