A reissue in trade paperback format of Naipaul's bestselling work, a novel about exile and the tumultuous Third World.
In the brilliant novel ( The New York Times ) V.
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.
Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.