A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness 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. An
Area of Darkness 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.
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