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THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY -- WITH A NEW 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. 'Brilliant' Observer 'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' The Times

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Travel & holiday Travel writing

• Full title: Area of Darkness
• Author: V S Naipaul
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780330522830
• ISBN: 0330522833
• ID: 04058214
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 224 g
• Dimensions: 195 × 131 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2010

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