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A Bend in the River
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- What had been the European suburb near the rapids had been burnt down, and bush had grown over the ruins; it was hard to distinguish what had been gardens from what had been streets.†
p. 4.7suburb = a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- But more unnerving than anything else was the ruined suburb near the rapids.†
p. 27.1 *
- It didn't matter that the Europeans in our town were uneducated, or that there was such a difference between what he stood for in his own life and what the ruined suburb near the rapids had stood for.†
p. 63.6
- There had been a boom before, just at the end of the colonial period, and the ruined suburb near the rapids was what it had left behind.†
p. 99.7
- Lucky for him then; but now that dead suburb was being rehabilitated.†
p. 99.8
- As an African, he was building a new town on the site of what had been a rich European suburb —but what he was building was meant to be grander.†
p. 100.3
- And it was to the polytechnic there—on the site of the dead European suburb that to me, when I first came, had suggested the ruins of a civilization that had come and gone—that Ferdinand was sent on a government scholarship, when he had finished at the lycee.†
p. 102.5
- Forest at a bend in the river, a meeting place, an Arab settlement, a European outpost, a European suburb, a ruin like the ruin of a dead civilization, the glittering Domain of new Africa, and now this.†
p. 260.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(suburban) relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)