In the canon
A Bend in the River
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1979
- Pages
- Pages 280
A trader from an East African coastal family opens a shop in a river town deep in a newly independent central African country, and watches independence curdle into a strongman's cult and violence before fleeing the collapse with his life.
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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