An Area of Darkness

Name: An Area of Darkness
Author: V.S. Naipaul

by V.S. Naipaul

Travel essays exploring Indian culture and social conditions

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V.S. Naipaul

Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning writer whose essays and travel writing documented postcolonial societies with unflinching clarity. The Middle Passage, An Area of Darkness, and Among the Believers are his finest nonfiction works. His uncompromising honesty—and his cruelty—made him one of the most controversial writers of his era.

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