An Area of Darkness

Zusatztext A wonderful book . . . a magical book Informationen zum Autor V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas , The Mimic Men , Guerrillas , A Bend in the River , and The Enigma of Arrival . In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State . His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers , Beyond Belief , The Masque of Africa , and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness , India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now . In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died in 2018. Klappentext To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people Vorwort A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing. Zusammenfassung A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.

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Brilliant . . . true autobiography arises when a man encounters something in his life which shocks him into the need for self-examination and self-exploration. It was natural that a sojourn in India should provide this shock for Naipaul. The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing. An Area of Darkness is tender, lyrical, explosive and cruel Observer

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul, Vidiadhar S. Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2020
• EAN: 9781529032109
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-3210-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 157 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Travel writing, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers, Classic fiction: general and literary