Bend in the River PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017) is on the run —

is on the run — but is he guilty

a playwright struggles with writer’s block

member of the Jockey Club

takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think

Bend in the River PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee (2017) is on the run —First 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