An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India by V.S. Naipaul

An Area of Darkness: His Discovery of India

India Trilogy #1

V.S. Naipaul

290 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging reflective medium-paced

Description

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. Fro...

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