"A Bend in the River" offers a unique perspective on post-colonial Africa through the eyes of an isolated villager. Naipaul's prose is sharp, and the characters are complex and nuanced. The book offers a necessary perspective on the impact of political upheaval, and the individual's search for meaning amidst change.

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• Booker Prize Nominee (1979)

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn 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.

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