An Area of Darkness
Publisher: Picador
Published: May 10, 2002
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780330487160
Subjects: Biography: general; Travel writing; India; Travel
First sentence: AS SOON AS our quarantine flag came down and the last of the barefooted, blue-uniformed policemen of the Bombay Port Health Authority had left the ship, Coelho the Goan came aboard and, luring me with a long beckoning finger into the saloon, whispered, 'You have any cheej?'