The first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a
preface by the author. 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. 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 . . . 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. 'His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns
with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India
and himself' - The Times
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