Nominee · The Booker Prize 1979
A Bend in the River
1979 novel by V. S. Naipaul
After a recent civil war, a country in the interior of Africa is under a new President, whose insane energy and crudity have made his power felt everywhere including an isolated village at a bend in the river.
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