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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.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375708359
ISBN-13
9780375708350
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Area of Darkness : a Discovery of India
Author
V.S. Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Asia / India & South Asia, Essays & Travelogues, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Weight
9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ds414.N23 2002
Publication Date
2002-07-09
Reviews
"Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master." -- The New York Review of Books "This is India. I don't know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum. . . . Brilliant." -- The Observer "His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelation of both India and himself. . . . There is a kind of displaced person who has a better sense of place than anybody: Mr. Naipaul is an outstanding example." -- The Times (London) "[Naipaul's] penetrating, opinionated travel writing . . . makes up a remarkable running commentary on the clash of civilizations." -- The New York Times, "Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master." The New York Review of Books "This is India. I don't know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum. . . . Brilliant." John Wain,The Observer "His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelation of both India and himself. . . . There is a kind of displaced person who has a better sense of place than anybody: Mr. Naipaul is an outstanding example." The Times(London) "[Naipaul's] penetrating, opinionated travel writing . . . makes up a remarkable running commentary on the clash of civilizations." The New York Times, "Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master." The New York Review of Books "This is India. I don't know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum. . . . Brilliant." John Wain, The Observer "His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelation of both India and himself. . . . There is a kind of displaced person who has a better sense of place than anybody: Mr. Naipaul is an outstanding example." The Times (London) "[Naipaul's] penetrating, opinionated travel writing . . . makes up a remarkable running commentary on the clash of civilizations." The New York Times, "Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master." The New York Review of Books "This is India. I don't know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum. . . . Brilliant." John Wain, The Observer "His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelation of both India and himself. . . . There is a kind of displaced person who has a better sense of place than anybody: Mr. Naipaul is an outstanding example." The Times (London) "[Naipaul's] penetrating, opinionated travel writing . . . makes up a remarkable running commentary on the clash of civilizations." The New York Times From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2002
Lccn
2002-447592
Dewey Decimal
915.4
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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