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An Area of Darkness
de NAIPAUL, V. S
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Librería
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Small tear at the margin of one page, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with creases on the flaps, and moderate edgewear with a closed tear on the rear panel. Naipaul was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sinopsis
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 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 apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. -Publisher’s Website
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Detalles
- Librería
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 543746
- Título
- An Area of Darkness
- Autor
- NAIPAUL, V. S
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Macmillan Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Palabras clave
- NobelLaureate, EnglishLiterature
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
Sobre Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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