An Area of Darkness (häftad, eng)

<p><b>The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. </b><br><br> <i>An Area of Darkness</i> 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 .

. .<br><br> 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.<br><br> ‘His narrative skill is spectacular.

One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself’ – <i>The Times</i></p>

Format	Häftad
Omfång	304 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Pan Macmillan
Utgivningsdatum	2010-09-03
ISBN	9780330522830