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An Area of Darkness

A searching journey through India confronts inherited images of the country with the traveler’s often difficult encounters and personal responses.

Nonfiction

India: A Million Mutinies Now

V.S. Naipaul

Encounters across caste, work and politics reveal a changing India, as individual aspirations challenge inherited expectations and established social hierarchies.

Nonfiction

India: A Wounded Civilization

V.S. Naipaul

Naipaul examines Indian society through encounters and reflection, asking how inherited traditions bear upon the country’s unsettled modern life.

Nonfiction

The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

V.S. Naipaul

V.S.

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