A Bend in the River: V.S. Naipaul - Brossura

Naipaul, V.S.

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ISBN 10: 033052299X ISBN 13: 9780330522991

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Riassunto

Set in an unnamed African country, V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River is 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. This spot, this `bend in the river', is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. And from this rich landscape emerges one of the author's most potent works - a truly moving story of historical upheaval and social breakdown.

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Recensione:

‘Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance.’ Elizabeth Hardwick

‘Always a master of fictional landscape, Naipaul here shows, in his variety of human examples and in his search for underlying social causes, a Tolstoyan spirit’ John Updike

Descrizione del libro:

The great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

With a new preface by the author

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 033052299X
• ISBN 13: 9780330522991
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336