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An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India
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A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
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| Weight | 1.23 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.71 × 13.1 × 2.3 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 288 |
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| Year Published | 2002-6-20 |
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| ISBN 10 | 0676975143 |
| About The Author | 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 died in 2018. |
“This is India. I don’t know any other book that comes so near to capturing the whole crazy spectrum…. Brilliant.” — The Observer“A Tolstoyan spirit…. The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.” — John Updike“Naipaul is a master of English prose.” — J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books“V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer…. This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.” — Kingsley Amis, The Spectator“Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” — Evelyn Waugh“For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” — The New York Times Book Review |
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| Table Of Content | Traveller’s Prelude: A Little Paperwork Part One1. A Resting-Place for the Imagination2. Degree3. The Colonial 4. Romancers Part Two5. A Doll’s House on the Dal Lake6. The Medieval City 7. Pilgrimage Part Three8. Fantasy and Ruins 9. The Garland on my Pillow 10. Emergency11. The Village of the Dubes Flight |
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