A Bend in the River Cover:Paperback heart-wrenching true story of one

heart-wrenching true story of one young woman willing to risk her safety and even her life for a chance at freedom in the largest slave escape attempt in American history

But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams

so he’s not scared at all

and there is the richest man who ever lived

A Bend in the River Cover:Paperback heart-wrenching true story of oneIn the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V. S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one manan Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and