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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. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. A bend in the river was shortlisted for the 1979 booker prize but, perhaps because naipaul had already won in 1971 with in a free state, he was passed over. At the heart of his novel is an indian shopkeeper given only the name of salim who arrives in an unnamed town in africa far from the west coast. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously. This incandescent novel chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of africa, a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english. A bend in the river is a 1979 novel by nobel laureate v. Monsters lurk in dark places where shadows grow long. Download or stream where the river ends by charles martin.
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