A Bend in the River

When Salim, a young Indian man, is offered a small business in Central Africa, he accepts As he strives to establish himself, he becomes closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly dependent state. Best Read [ A Bend in the River ] by [ V.S. Naipaul ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This book is as much a story of what it was like living in a newly independent country in Africa in the 1960 s 1970 s as it is a novel The book has memorable opening lines The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it The main character is a Hindu from a well off family, originally from India by way of eastern Africa but now settled on the west coast He buys a store from his uncle and moves a week s journey upriver and inland, This book is as much a story of what it was like living in a newly independent country in Africa in the 1960 s 1970 s as it is a novel The book has memorable opening lines The world is what it is men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it The main character is a Hindu from a wel...Say there s a bad guy He s in a book the book is well written fine, there are many books about bad guys Say further that the book is written by a bad guy Fine lots of authors are dicks Now say that the author is unaware that they re both bad guys He hasn t written the book he thinks he s written Now where are you A Bend in the River s Salim is a bad guy He s a bully and a coward He doesn t know that he s a bully and a coward, and VS Naipaul doesn t seem to know either view spoiler Say there s a bad guy He s in a book the book is well written fine, there are many boo...I always find it difficult to talk about the books I really like Especially so if it is a Naipaul book I read The Bendagain this year and found it muchensorcelling than first time around I guess what is so appealing about the book is its sense of diligence, a discipline which attempts to faithfully reflect the emerging world in Africa, as it is Nono less Perhaps, this is why, even after half a century and milliontheses written on Africa, it still reflects the essence of I always find it difficult to talk about the books I really like Especially so if it is a Naipaul book I read The Bendagain this year and found it muchensorcelling than first time around I guess what is so appealing about the book is its sense of diligence, a discipline which attempts to faithfully reflect the emerging world in Africa, as it is Nono less Perhaps, this is why, even after half a century and milliontheses written on Africa, it still reflects the essence of Africa as none of them do.I suppose most paperback readers find it inane or even boring But, bear in mind it s not a transit read It s not a fiction of plot or story It is a narrative of reality And like all real...I read this book in Central Africa, during my Peace Corps service I maintain that it is the best, most accurate depiction of Central African society a broad term, believe me, I know, but still that I have read.I found this novel engrossing and moving, and it inspired me to begin collecting Naipaul s other works all of which are good, albeit not as good as this one.Naipaul has been criticized for denigrating third world countries and societies Strange, since he comes from one he was born I read this book in Central Africa, ...My copy of this book is a POB previously owned book There are a lot of scribbles using different colors of highlighters pink, yellow and green In one of the pages is a name Danielle Sidari I googled her name yesterday and one of these days I will invite her to be my friend in Facebook Who knows Anyway, it is my first time to read a book with a lot of scribbles Danielle is not a bad reader Rather her comments and the phrases she underlined seem to indicate that she is smart There is My copy of this book is a POB previously owned book There are a lot of scribbles using different colors of highlighters pink, yellow and green In one of the pages is a name Danielle Sidari I googled her name yesterday and one of these days I will invite her to be my friend in Facebook Who knows Anyway, it is my first time to read a book with a lot of scribbles Danielle is not a bad reader Rather her comments and the phrases she underlined seem to indicate that she is smart There is just a page p 191 where she wrote Ironic and this is the part where the narrator, Salim says that he finds adultery as horrible when in fact he is sleeping with a friend s wife, Yvette Danielle seemed to have missed what Naipaul wrote on page 197, just 6 pages away from the line ...Beautiful, multi layered story, set in an unnamed African country, but very simular to the Congo or Za re in the time of dictator Mobutu The storyteller, Salim, is of Indian origin, and takes over a shop in a town, deep inland, by a bend in the river , just after independence He observes the waves of unrest and uncertainty and the rise of a Great Man in the capital You can read this novel as a lucid political story the making of a gruesome dictator, and how different people cope with it , a Beautiful, multi layered story, set in an unnamed African country, but very simular to the Congo or Za re in the time of dictator Mobutu The storyteller, Salim, is of Indian origin, and takes over a shop in a town, deep inland, by a bend in the river , just after indepen...This book had such a promising start Naipaul s descriptions of mid 20th Century Africa were great and I think he did a terrific job of highlighting tribalism and what it must feel like to be considered an outsider in Africa There weren t too many likeable characters in this book I started off liking Salim because he was a young Indian man who left his home on the coast to go to a town along old slave trails However, his sexism was too much for me Obviously Naipaul feels Africa is a dark This book had such a promising start Naipaul s descriptions of mid 20th Century Africa were great and I think he did a terrific job of highlighting tribalism and what it must feel like to be considered an outsider in Africa ...4 30 here we go.I hear it sucks.5 7 09A total snoozefest.Naipaul is a Nobel Prize winner That s crust I did a bit of research on Naipaul as I was reading this thinking, are you freaking kidding me Rave reviews in Newsweek, New York Times. and on and on and on The Nobel Committee compared Naipaul to Joseph Conrad, saying, Naipaul is Conrad s heir Maybe that s just me sticking up for Conrad, author ofHeart of Darkness and fellow Pole Or perhaps it s just me recognizing subpar 4 30 here we go.I hear it sucks.5 7 09A total snoozefest.Naipaul is a Nobel Prize winner That s crust I did a bit of research on Naipaul as I was reading this thinking, are you freaking kidding me Rave reviews in Newsweek, New York Times. and on and on and on The Nobel Committee compared Naipaul to Joseph Conrad, saying, Naipaul is Conrad s heir Maybe that s just me sticking up for Conrad, author ofHeart of Darkness and fellow Pole Or perhaps it s just me recognizing subpar lite...This is a lousy boring book Naipaul seems very interested in telling us How The World Works, or at least how it works in Africa he does know Africa is a continent and not a country, right The problem, though, is that this is ostensibly a novel and not a work of non fiction, and Naipaul isn t a very good storyteller He mostly narrates rather than dramatizes There are long, long passages where there is no dialogue, which would be all right if something interesting actually happened in those This is a lousy boring book Naipaul seems very interested in telling us How The World Works, or at least how it works in Africa he does know Africa is a continent and not a country, right The problem, though, is that this is ostensibly a novel and not a work of non fiction, and Naipaul isn t a very good storyteller He mostly narrates rather than dramatizes There are long, long passages where there is no dialogue, which would be all right if something interes...The news that V.S Naipal had won the Nobel Prize for Literature came shortly after the shocking events of 9 11 The Wall Street Journal hailed the news and editorialized that Naipal was especially worthy as a third world author who embraced the values of the west Quoting A BEND IN THE RIVER, the Journal argued that Naipal s message is that men in the third world should be judged by the same standards as men in the industrialized west For some reason, the Journal s assessment of A BEND IN THE The news that V.S Naipal had won the Nobel Prize for Literature came shortly after the shocking events of 9 11 The Wall Street Journal hailed the news and editorialized that Naipal was especially worthy as a third world author who embraced the values of the west Quoting A BEND IN THE RIVER, the Journal argued that Naipal s message is that men in the third world should be judged by the same standards as men in the industrialized west For some reason, the Journal s assessment of A BEND IN THE RIVER was on my mind a...

• English
• 27 April 2018
V.S. Naipaul
• Paperback
• 326 pages
• 0330487140
• V.S. Naipaul
• A Bend in the River