Wikipedia - "A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. ... Set in an unnamed African country after independence, the book is narrated by Salim, an ethnically Indian Muslim and a shopkeeper in a small, growing city in the country's remote interior. Salim observes the rapid changes in Africa with an outsider's distance. Salim, the protagonist, grows up in the Indian community of traders on the east coast of Africa. Feeling insecure about his future in East Africa, he buys a business from Nazruddin in a town at 'a bend in the river' in the heart of Africa. When he moves there, he finds the town decrepit, a 'ghost town', its former European suburb reclaimed by the bush, and many of its European vestiges ruined in a 'rage' by the locals in response to their suppression and humiliation during the colonial times."
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