false 40199187 27540 5845 0330487140 9780330487146 121 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553228m/5845.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553228s/5845.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5845.A_Bend_in_the_River 3.75 1051 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.]]> 3989 3.62 5934 738 1979 4 0 false Mon Dec 29 23:21:15 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 21:22:59 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 23:21:15 -0800 2008