A Bend in the River
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Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7699769M
- ISBN-139780679722021
- ISBN-100679722025
- OCLC Control Number19757981
- OCLC Control Numberbendinriver0000naip_s0d9
and 2 more
- Goodreads456710
- LibraryThing43160
Classifications
- LCCPR9272.9.N32 B4 1989
Description
After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.
Description
First published in 1979, a Bend in the River is a novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new.
First Sentence
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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