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Title: Area of Darkness, An: Macmillan Collector’s Library
Author: NAIPAUL V S
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 20/10/2020
Imprint: MACMILLAN
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
A classic of modern travel writing, <i>An Area of Darkness</i> is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. <i>An Area of Darkness</i> also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. This may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
ISBN: 9781529032109
Weight: 300gr
Dimension: 150mm X 93mm
Pages: 352