An Area Of Darkness

by Naipaul, V S

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

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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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New York: Macmillan, 1965. Bound in the publishers original chocolate brown cloth boards with contrasting caramel title lettering to spine. This is the First American Edition. The 281 pages remain in crisp, fresh condition with no inscriptions and are squarely bound. Binding is fine with no blemishes or marks. Double matching endpapers portaying maps of India and the region… Read more about this item
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An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

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London: Andre Deutsch, 1964-1990. First editions of each of the author's works in his acclaimed Indian Trilogy. Octavo, original cloth. Each volume is signed by V.S. Naipaul on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Trinidadian essayist and novelist V.S. Naipaul has won both the 1971 Booker Prize and the 2001 Nobel Prize… Read more about this item
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