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An Area of Darkness is a book written by V. S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue detailing Naipaul's trip through India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy that includes India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) and India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990).
An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India. V.S. Naipaul. 3.68. 2,282 ratings204 reviews. The Nobel Prize-winning author’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. “Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master.” — The New York Review of Books.
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.
- Sir V. S. Naipaul
Jul 9, 2002 · From the Back Cover. A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness" is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
- V. S. Naipaul
Oct 20, 2010 · An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict...
Mar 22, 2012 · 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...
About An Area of Darkness. The Nobel Prize-winning author’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. “Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master.” —The New York Review of Books
Mar 28, 2022 · An area of darkness : his discovery of India : Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Dec 10, 2020 · An area of darkness. by. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. Publication date. 1968. Topics. India -- Description and travel, India -- Social life and customs. Publisher. London, England ; New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books.
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.
- V. S. Naipaul
