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An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India

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by V. S. Naipaul
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Availability:In StockContributor:V. S. NaipaulPublish date:2002-07-09Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375708350ISBN-10:375708359UPC:9780375708350Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Asia, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:India & South AsiaSize:7.96 x 5.22 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCKWNP0K9Q
The Nobel Prize-winning author's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.

"Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master." --The New York Review of Books

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375708350ISBN-10:375708359UPC:9780375708350Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Asia, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:India & South AsiaSize:7.96 x 5.22 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.4894Product ID:SCKWNP0K9Q
V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.

His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.

In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
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