Talk:A Bend in the River

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I've corrected the ID of the country as Uganda, as I think Congo is a much more common interpretation. See, for instance: 1, 2, 3, or the Amazon.com reviews. --Dvyost 14:15, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

People see what they want in this book, and it's kind of a Rorschach in that way, reflecting what history a particular person knows. Enough people have consistently noted similarities to Idi Amin's Uganda, or to a country "very like Congo or Uganda," to merit mention.[1] Naipaul certainly intended ambiguity, and we should respect that.

Are we allowed to say that it is among Naipaul's most famous and celebrated works? I think it's a masterpiece, but to say so surely violates NPOV. Sandover 06:41, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

While I am not going to say this is Congo - I can say that it is not Uganda. In the book Uganda is the place that Nazruddin first goes to. A quote (from The Big Man - 13. "Things were bad in Uganda, Nazruddin wrote. The army people...Uganda was Beautiful, fertile, easy, without poverty..." This excerpt is just one of multiple examples in the book of Uganda being referred to as being away.