Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522830 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | An Area of Darkness |
| Subtitle: | His Discovery of India |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Travel writing, Travel writing, India |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing. <p><b>The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. </b><br><br> <i>An Area of Darkness</i> 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 . . .<br><br> 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.<br><br> ‘His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself’ – <i>The Times</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-09-03 |
