A Bend in the River Cover:Paperback this book is a great

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uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history

A Bend in the River Cover:Paperback this book is a greatIn the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan 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