Haein Song Un—Folded Whole Light / Folds Pain Memory Marking Colour A Brief History of... *** Queen Mary's Dolls' House Winter's Tale The Fragments of Parmenides The Botanical City Ornamental Digressions Hungry Bibliophiles Interstices & Intersections Perpetua and Felicity In Principio La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation Dickinson's Selected Poems Bram de Does Russian Modernism Beckett's Trilogy The Songlines Linear A to Linear Z A Bend in the River Mr. Palomar Journey Round My Room The Myth of Sisyphus Romeo and Juliet The Periodic Table The Trial Gogol's Collected Stories Brush Up Your Shakespeare Just So Stories Le Grand Meaulnes Whistler Don't Look Now *** Three Plays of the Absurd Nine Books of the Absurd *** About A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul Bound in 2016 Picador 2011 204 x 136 x 30 mm Full leather binding in light blue goatskin with onlays and tooling in various colours. The endpapers have been printed using drypoint etching technique. Lether headbands with silk highlights. Set in an unnamed African country, A Bend in the River is the story of an Arab-African man, Salim, and his journey through the country's growing unrest and turmoil. He settles in the spot, 'bend in the river', which is a microcosm of post-colonial Africa at the time of Independence: a scene of chaos, violent change, warring tribes, ignorance, isolation and poverty. The design is to abstractly capture 'the bend' in the river and the happenings in the bend. Private Collection, UK