Haein Song


Un—Folded
Whole
Light / Folds
Pain Memory
Marking Colour
A Brief History of...

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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

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Three Plays of the Absurd
Nine Books of the Absurd

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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