An Area of Darkness
Author(s): Naipaul, V.S
A luminous and challenging work of autobiographical travel writing.
In An Area of Darkness, V.S. Naipaul describes his encounter with a force in his life which shocked him into awareness of a need for self-examination and self-explanation. It is perhaps natural that his year-long sojourn in India should have provided such a shock. 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. He spins his web not so much to entrap his readers as to make them think for themselves.
Paperback (B-Format)
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- : Picador Books
- : Picador Books
- : 01 January 2002
- : books
Special Fields
- : Naipaul, V.S
- : Paperback
- : good
- : 290