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Oct 1, 2021 · A Bend in the River: Directed by Colin Broderick. With John Duddy, Kathy Kiera Clarke, John McConnell, Brendan Broderick. The story of a writer who returns to Ireland, after spending twenty five years in New York, to confront the ghosts of his past.
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul . The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised.
Sep 20, 1979 · In his 1979 novel, Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul captures the climate of disruptive & unpredictable transition from colony to a newly independent African country at the center of the continent.
A Bend in the River, novel by V.S. Naipaul, published in 1979. Reminiscent of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, A Bend in the River chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of Africa as it explores the themes of personal exile and political and individual corruption.
A Bend in the River Full Book Summary. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, Salim, grew up in a community of ethnically Indian Muslims on the east African coast. As the novel opens, Salim explains how he came to leave his coastal home and move to an unnamed country in the African interior.
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Trinidadian author V. S. Naipaul. The novel follows the life of Salim, an Indian Muslim merchant, as he moves to an unnamed African country to take over his family’s store.
Jul 13, 2020 · A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul’s (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) masterwork of displacement and dispossession, a summary statement from a distinguished writing career documenting what John Updike has called “one of the contemporary world’s great subjects—the mingling of its peoples.”
Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation.
Sep 5, 2023 · It is the story of an Indian Muslim shopkeeper named Salim who buys a shop in Central Africa from his friend Nazruddin. During his journey, he comes across many...
A Bend in the River presents a pessimistic view of Africa’s future as the continent takes its first steps toward political independence. The novel’s central vision for “the new Africa” comes through the President, who, in the early years of his political office, strives to unify his country.
