| A Bend in the River Contributor(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679722025 ISBN-13: 9780679722021 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1989 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 79022317 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.18" W x 8.1" (0.47 lbs) 279 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African - Ethnic Orientation - Indian |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 43271 Reading Level: 6.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |