In this novel, a hotel maid brings a historian to see her son when his college education makes him politically apathetic.
In this novel, a man runs into his servant dancing at a bar, who instantly stops when seen. In this novel, a hotel maid brings a historian to see her son when his college education makes him politically apathetic. The narrator uses a simile about a column of ants continuing even when some of its members die to describe a town's reaction to the murder of a mask-collecting priest. The protagonist is arrested for hiding ivory in this novel, but is broken out and told "We're all going to hell, and every man knows this" by (*) Ferdinand, who repays the narrator for his education by helping him escape the country on a steamer that gets attacked. That narrator sleeps with Raymond's wife Yvette and has his store confiscated by the Big Man, a stand-in for Mobutu Sese Seko. For 10 points, name this V. S. Naipaul novel about the merchant Salim, who lives at the title location.
In this novel, a man runs into his servant dancing at a bar, who instantly stops when seen.
A Bend in the River