Bend in the River PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017) Travelling to the past

Travelling to the past

and enormous in its meaning

Bawcutt explains the obsolete marriage customs

a playwright struggles with writer’s block

Bend in the River PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017) Travelling to the pastFirst published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's