Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) But tonight as the digital

But tonight as the digital clock displays 00:00 a faint electrical crackle is perceptible

When Sophie has to visit her mother at her sanctuary for bonobos

Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history

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

Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) But tonight as the digitalFirst 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