Bend in the River Condition:Good negotiations

negotiations

Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife to the tsunami during the Great East Japan earthquake

A Man Booker Prize finalist

Yet amidst this uncertainty

Every question is answered

Bend in the River Condition:Good negotiationsFirst 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