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An Area of Darkness

By Naipaul, V. S.

An Area of Darkness Art & Literature

An Area of Darkness

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2002-07-09
Publication Date:
2002-07-09
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375708359
ISBN13:
9780375708350
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
222 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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