# A Bend in the River

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- Book: [A Bend in the River](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river) ([A Bend in the River.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul/a-bend-in-the-river.md))
- Authors: [V. S. Naipaul](https://www.bookquiver.com/v-s-naipaul)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-202-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1989-03-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Widely hailed as the Nobel Prize-winning author’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent...