An Area of Darkness Free Audiobook Download by V. S. Naipaul

"An Area of Darkness" is an autobiographical account of V. S. Naipaul's childhood in Trinidad and his migration to England in the 1950s, both an area of darkness and enlightenment. In this memoir and travelogue, Naipaul chronicles his life as a child growing up in Trinidad during the British colonial era, his life in England as a migrant boy without any particular purpose, and his eventual return to the West Indies.

This is an audiobook download of the book, An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul. This short story is about a man who goes on a vacation of sorts in India and learns about the country's history from those who have lived it

A Member of the Nobel Prize Committee, the author of The Satanic Verses and In a Free State, V. S. Naipaul's career is one to be admired. His works have been translated into over thirty-five languages and won numerous literary awards; the recipient of many honorary degrees and fellowships, he has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 for "having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

An Area of Darkness is a bleak outlook on the present world. Naipaul's pessimistic view on society, politics and the world in general is contrasted with his love for humanity who he believes have always been good at heart. This audiobook was written in 1979 and it follows the story of a man on a journey to someplace else, unaware of what he will find there.

An Area of Darkness is a book by the Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul, originally published in 1977. It was reprinted in 1997 with a new foreword by Naipaul's friend Salman Rushdie. The title comes from a poem written by John Keats and taken from Ode on a Grecian Urn: "Yet when I pass through the long still chambers of the night/All gentle shapes dissolve and melt away".