<p>A classic of modern travel writing, <i>An Area of Darkness</i> is Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland.</p><p>Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is introduced by internationally acclaimed author Paul Theroux.</p><p>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. <i>An Area of Darkness</i> also abounds with Naipaul’s strikingly original responses to India’s paralyzing caste system, its acc
