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and there is an adequate amount of research and theoretical discussion to make this the ideal text for both the undergraduate- and graduate-level courses

Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) The columns ended their printFirst published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's