A Bend In The River

A Bend in the River is a novel written by V. S. Naipaul.

The book is narrated by Salim, a young man from an Indian family of traders long resident on the coast. He believes The world is what it is; men who are thing, who allow themselves to become thing, have place in it. So he has taken the initiative; left the coast; acquired his own shop in a small, growing city in the continent`s remote interior and is selling sundries.