Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) “Louisiana Hayride

“Louisiana Hayride

and those aspects of life where an automatic (or semi automatic) response is more appropriate and perhaps even required

and there is an adequate amount of research and theoretical discussion to make this the ideal text for both the undergraduate- and graduate-level courses

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Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) “Louisiana HayrideFirst 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