&lsquoHis narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow handinhand revelations of both India and himself&rsquo &ndash The TimesAn Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul&rsquos semiautobiographical account of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. At once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered.He was twentynine years old he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibitiondry 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 is revelatory both of India and of himself a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

Binding: Paperback;304 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: BGLA; Weight: 336 g; Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 18

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