An Area of Darkness : His Discovery of India
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- Item Code: 49069
- Author: V. S. Naipaul
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan Books
- Edition: 1st
- Isbn : 9780330522830
- 13 EAN: 9780330522830
The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.
An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . .
The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone.
'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' The Times
| Book specification | |
|---|---|
| Author | V. S. Naipaul |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan Books |
| Edition | 1st |
| Isbn | 9780330522830 |
| 13 EAN | 9780330522830 |
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