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

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Bend in the River CWA International Dagger Nominee (2009) and there is an adequateFirst 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