An Area of Darkness

An Area of Darkness 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 . . . 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. ''His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself'' - The Times

Product details

• Authors: V S Naipaul, V. S. Naipaul, V.S. Naipaul
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.2024
• EAN: 9781035051809
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3505180-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Macmillan Collector's Library; Picador Classic; Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Memoirs, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Travel writing, Autobiography: writers, Classic fiction: general and literary