A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked A Bend in the River #83 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979.
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