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First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The green cloth book has softening to the spine ends. The jacket has creasing along top edge with a small tear to the upper spine fold. Short listed for the Booker Prize and listed as a Modern Library top 100 English Language novel of the 20th Century. Ticket to the author signing laid in.

In the novel, 'A Bend in the River,' V.S. Naipaul paints a picture of life in a town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. It is a story of post-colonialism, isolation, and the clash of cultures.