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An Area of Darkness

An Area of Darkness

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An Area of Darkness

by Naipaul, V.S

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Andre Deutsch, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Published in London by Andre Deutsch in 1964. "First Published 1964" stated on the copyright page. Book fine. DJ very good, price-clipped.

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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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
An Area of Darkness
Author
Naipaul, V.S
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Andre Deutsch
Date Published
1964

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