Description
| Product ID: | 9781529032109 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | An Area of Darkness |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: writers, Autobiography: literary, Memoirs, Classic fiction: general and literary, Travel writing, Memoirs, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing. <p>A classic of modern travel writing, <i>An Area of Darkness</i> is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.<br><br>Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux.<br><br>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. <i>An Area of Darkness</i> also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. This may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-08-20 |
