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An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
by Naipaul, V.S
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
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 in Literature. An Area of Darkness is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. "The world Naipaul sees is of course no void at all: it is a world dense with physical and social phenomena, brutally alive with the complications and contradictions of actual human endeavour... This world of Naipaul's is in fact charged with what can only be described as a romantic view of reality, an almost unbearable tension between the idea and the physical fact..." (The New York Review of Books).
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90453
- Title
- An Area of Darkness: An Experience of India; India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
- Author
- Naipaul, V.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964-1990
- Keywords
- An Area of Darkness First Edition, Area of Darkness Signed First Edition, first edition, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now., Nobel, signed, signed first edition, V.S. Naipaul
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