num_pages: 278
description: 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 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: Nazruddin, Yvette (A Bend in the River), Father Huismans, Metty, Indar, Shoba, Zabeth, Raymond (A Bend in the River), Mahesh, Salim, Ferdinand (A Bend in the River)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, India, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 17358
places: Africa
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage