A Bend in the River
Publisher: Vintage
Published: March 13, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780679722021
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction; Fiction / Literary
First sentence: The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
Description: First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new.