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Description edit
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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Aziz: Add a description of this character.
- Mr Butt
- Malhotra
- Ramnath
- Ali Mohammed
- Gandhi
- Laraine
- Mr Madan
- Mrs Mahindra
- Mr Nehru
- Ramon
- Gulmarg
- Ramachandra
- Mr Kulkarni
- Muslim
- Kadir
- Malik
- Bashir
- Abdullah
- Kanakchand
- Rafiq
- Hiralal
- Ishmael
- Andy
- Annie Besant
- Karan Singh
- Coelho
- Abhayraj
- Zenobia
- Forster
- Mr Moreton
- Mrs Hauksbee
- Mr Inspector
Setting & Locations edit
- India
- Trinidad
- England
- Kashmir
- Srinagar
- Bombay
- London
- Europe
- Calcutta
- New Delhi
- Madras
- Simla
- Tourist Reception Centre
- Lucknow
- Chandanwari
- Valley
- Punjab
- Ashram
- Hinduism
- Alexandria
- Mahabharata
- Islam
- Sheshnag
- Amarnath
- Goa
- Africa
- Pondicherry
- America
- Pakistan
First Sentence edit
AS SOON AS our quarantine flag came down and the last of the barefooted, blue-uniformed policemen of the Bombay Port Health Authority had left the ship, Coelho the Goan came aboard and, luring me with a long beckoning finger into the saloon, whispered, 'You have any cheej?'
Authors & Contributors edit
- V. S. Naipaul (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Vintage Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0394746732
Page Count: 281
Publisher: Vintage Books
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0394746732
Page Count: 281
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- Dewey: 915.4044
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