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

An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India

India Trilogy #1

V.S. Naipaul

304 pages first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction history travel challenging reflective medium-paced

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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.Traveling from the bureaucratic ...

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