AN AREA OF DARKNESS
de V. S. Naipaul
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/very good
- Librería
-
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Author guides the reader through India from Bombay to Kashmir, from Delhi to Madras to Calcutta. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped. Two tape-repaired tears on jacket; largest being 2.75" on rear panel. A couple of creases on rear panel. Several pages have some stains. Size: 8vo (8" to 9". 281 pp.
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
- Bibliodditiques
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5666
- Título
- AN AREA OF DARKNESS
- Autor
- V. S. Naipaul
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First American edition
- Editorial
- Macmillan
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Palabras clave
- INDIA;
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