Anglický jazyk

Bend in the River

Vydavateľstvo: Macmillan
Rok vydania: 2002
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 0330487140

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O knihe

I had to he the man who was doing well and more than well, the man whose drab shop concealed some trigger operation that made millions. I had to he the man who had planned it ally who had come to the destroyed town at the bend in the river because he had foreseen the rich future.
`Salim, the narrator, is a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast of Central Africa. Salim has left the coast to make his way m the interior, there to take on a small trading shop of this and that, sundries, sold to the natives. The place is "a bend in the river"; it is Africa. The time is post-colonial, the time of Independence. The Europeans have withdrawn or been forced to withdraw, and the scene is one of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation, poverty, and a lack of preparation for the modern world they have entered, or partially assumed as a sort of decoration. It is a story of historical upheaval and social breakdown. Naipaul has fashioned a work of intense imaginative force. It is a haunting creation, rich with incident and human bafflement, played out in an immense detail of landscape rendered with a poignant brilliance’
Elizabeth Hardwick