{"product_id":"an-area-of-darkness-v-s-naipaul","title":"An Area of Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book in V. S. Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy - with a preface by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul's semi-autobiographical account - at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered - of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"V S Naipaul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43624582807796,"sku":"NF-B-G-22830","price":2830.0,"currency_code":"LKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/4440\/3700\/products\/an-area-of-darkness-v-s-naipaul-wild-sage.jpg?v=1777827032","url":"https:\/\/wildandthesage.com\/products\/an-area-of-darkness-v-s-naipaul","provider":"Wild and the Sage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}