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Detailed explanation-1: -A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul’s best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979.

Detailed explanation-2: -About the Author V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator, Salim, a Muslim Indian merchant, opens a store in a sleepy small town at a bend in the river (ostensibly the Congo River).

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -Elisha Cooper’s spectacular new picture book River is a journey story and so much more.