From the Publisher
In the "brilliant novel" (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.
About the Author
V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He has published more
than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for
Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of
Arrival and An Area of Darkness. He lives in
Wiltshire, England. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel
Prize in Literature in 2001.