A reissue in trade paperback format of Naipaul\'s bestselling work, a novel about exile and the tumultuous Third World.
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..
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.
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A reissue in trade paperback format of Naipaul\'s bestselling work, a novel about exile and the tumultuous Third World