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An area of darkness:

By: Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Picador, 2010.Description: xi, 290 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780330522830; 0330522833 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), -- 1932- -- Travel -- India | India -- Description and travelDDC classification: 915.40442
Summary:
THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . . The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. 'Brilliant' Observer 'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' The Times
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Originally published: London: Andre Deutsch, 1964.

THE FIRST BOOK IN V.S. NAIPAUL'S ACCLAIMED INDIAN TRILOGY - WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . . The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. 'Brilliant' Observer 'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself' The Times

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