A Bend in the River
Author(s): V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the Riveris narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent?s remote interior and is selling sundries - little more than this and that, really - to the natives.
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- : Everyman
- : Everyman's Library
- : 03 October 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : V. S. Naipaul; Patrick Marnham (Introduction by)
- : Paperback
- : 1904
- : English
- : 823.914