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  An Area of Darkness (Paperback) By (author) V. S. Naipaul

  

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  Short Description for An Area of DarknessA luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.
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  • Publisher: PICADOR
  • Published: 10 May 2002
  • Format: Paperback 200 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780330487160 ISBN 10: 0330487167
  • Sales rank: 297,471

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• "An Area of Darkness" is V.S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, always concerned - of his first visit to India, the land of his forbears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he began to experience a sense of 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 is by turns tender, lyrical, explosive and cruel. With spectacular narrative skill, Naipaul provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. 'A masterpiece of travel-writing' - Paul Theroux. 'Brilliant' - "Observer".