An Area of Darkness. V.S. Naipaul Paperback - 2010
by Naipaul; V. S. Naipaul
About this book
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. -Publisher’s Website
First Edition Identification
Andre Deutsch published a First UK edition in London, 1964. The hardcover is bound in black cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. The Macmillan Company published a First US Edition in New York in 1965.
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- Title An Area of Darkness. V.S. Naipaul
- Author Naipaul; V. S. Naipaul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Picador USA
- Date 2010
- ISBN 9780330522830 / 0330522833
- Dewey Decimal Code 915
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