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by V.S. Naipaul (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (10 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330487167
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330487160
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,006 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis
"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".

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