Dahewan
About This Novel
If you want to read one book to understand the essence of V. S. Naipaul's literature, that is "The Bend of the River"! Darkness is darkness, and Naipaul never bothers to paint it in a bright light. The colonists are gone. The country is independent! Like most people, Salim traveled thousands of miles to the small town on the bend of the river, looking forward to his dreams and future, but he didn't know that fate had already set a trap! In this place full of hatred, poverty and insecurity, people are wolves to people, and no one is safe! Many years ago, my neighbor Nazhanuddin stopped his business on a whim and walked deeper inland along the ancient trade route until he reached the bend of the river. Many years later, just when we all thought Nazanuddin was bankrupt and dead, he came back and wanted to sell me the store on the river bend and also wanted to marry his beautiful daughter to me. I excitedly went to the small town on the river bend, but found that the prosperity was filled with boundless haste, and everyone was waiting to die...
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