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An Area Of Darkness

by Naipaul, V.S

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New York: MacMillan, 1965, 1965. Book. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +, One Tear Dj. First Edition. Small brown area on first page of text caused by a leather bookmark..

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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. -Publisher’s Website

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Black Dog Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
An Area Of Darkness
Author
Naipaul, V.S
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Jacket Condition
Dust Jacket Included
Publisher
New York: MacMillan, 1965
Date Published
1965

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