A Bend in the River

Name: A Bend in the River
Author: N. VG Naipaul

by N. VG Naipaul

Political tragedy set in post-colonial Africa exploring corruption and moral decline

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N. VG Naipaul

Trinidadian-British novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. His fiction and travel writing explored the post-colonial condition with pitiless clarity, from the Caribbean to India to Africa, making him as controversial as he was celebrated.

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