A Bend In The River V S Naipaul Everyman&Apos Library Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Modern

Post-Colonial Africa Is Dissected With Pitiless Lucidity In This Disturbing Novel About An Outsider The Young Indian Trader Salim Who Has Moved From Coastal Settlement Where He Grew Up To Unnamed Country African Interior (Largely Based On Democratic Republic Of Congo) Settling That Very Bend River Conrad Had Set His Heart Darkness Some Seventy Years Before Enters A Ghost Town Once Flourishing European Outpost Which Fast Returning Bush New Dictator \ Big Man\ Impose Regime Assistance Raymond S White Whose Humanitarian Concerns Have Won Him International Acclaim But Plans For Country\ Future Are Arrogant And Delusional Becomes Obsessed By Raymond\ Wife Yvette Begins Affair Her Personal Political Tragedy Follow Civil War Returns Contemplating Disastrous Course Life Since Leaving Home Speaks Powerlessness Ordinary People Everywhere Face Historical Upheaval: I Couldn\ T Protect Anyone [And] No One Could Me We Only Various Ways Hide Truth Tide History Brought Us Here Another Was Coming Wash Away Σελίδες: 312 Διαστάσεις: 13 5X13 5Cm