The Indian Trilogy

AN AREA OF DARKNESS

'Brilliant ... tender, lyrical, explosive' Observer

V.S. Naipaul was twenty-nine when he first visited India. This is his semi-autobiographical account-at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered-a revelation both of the country and of himself.

INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION

'A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively...