{"product_id":"an-area-of-darkness-a-discovery-of-india-9780375708350","title":"An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Nobel Prize-winning author's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Whatever his literary form, Naipaul is a master.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTraveling 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. \u003ci\u003eAn Area of Darkness \u003c\/i\u003ealso 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375708350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.49lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.22w x 0.67d","brand":"V. S. Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916871962805,"sku":"9780375708350","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_07774387-7188-43f1-b8b9-416b3aeaec8a.jpg?v=1687272637","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/an-area-of-darkness-a-discovery-of-india-9780375708350","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}