A Bend in the River () is Nobel laureate winner () V. S. Naipaul’s now classic novel of Africa set following the end of British colonialism. 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/5(). A Bend in The River, the novel by Nobel Prize winner VS Naipaul, takes place in an unnamed postcolonial African town. The main character, Salim, narrates the story, which begins when he moves away from his family to the interior of the country to run a town shop. See Article History. A Bend in the River, novel by V.S. Naipaul, published in Reminiscent of Joseph Conrad ’s Heart of Darkness, A Bend in the River chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of Africa as it explores the themes of Cited by:
The work of V.S. Naipaul, who died in August at age 85, provided an excoriating examination of what it means to be a colonial and postcolonial subject. A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul's (17 August - 11 August ) masterwork of displacement and dispossession, a summary statement from a distinguished writing career documenting what John Updike has called "one of the contemporary world's great subjects—the mingling of its peoples." In his fiction, travel writing, and essays, Naipaul has. V. S. Naipaul established his novel A Bend in the River in an unnamed African country that has just achieved its independence from the then European thrall. Naipaul shows that independence has removed the hope of eliminating ignorance. The people are no more genuine, they have become greedy and selfish, and their cultural identities are at stake because they adapted to European cultural practices.
In his novel, Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul captures the climate of disruptive unpredictable transition from colony to a newly independent African country at the center of the continent. The author also portrays the condition of Asians within Africa, people who exist as perpetual expatriates, born in Africa but in no way "African", not accepted as citizens of any country always keenly in search of shelter elsewhere, anywhere. A Bend in the River is a novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial midth century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in A Bend in The River, the novel by Nobel Prize winner VS Naipaul, takes place in an unnamed postcolonial African town. The main character, Salim, narrates the story, which begins when he moves away from his family to the interior of the country to run a town shop.
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