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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/1989
ISBN: 9780679722021
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.18w x 0.64d

Review Citations: Newsweek 02/04/2008 pg. 9

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 43271 / Bend in the River
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 18