A Bend in the River

Naipaul, V. S.

ISBN 10 : 0679722025 ISBN 13 : 9780679722021

Editeur : Vintage, 1989

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
 
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
 
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0679722025
• ISBN 13: 9780679722021
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 288