Which of the following books are accreditated to the Indian origin author V. S. Naipaul?
(A) A Village by the Sea
(B) A Bend in the River
(C) An Area of Darkness
(D) A Tale of Two Cities
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (B) and (C) only
V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) was born in Trinidad to a family of Indian origin and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Each book is checked against its author:
(A) A Village by the Sea Incorrect. It is a children’s novel by Anita Desai (1982), set in a fishing village near Mumbai.
(B) A Bend in the River Correct. Naipaul’s novel of 1979, set in a newly independent African country.
(C) An Area of Darkness Correct. Naipaul’s travel book of 1964 on his first journey through India; the first of his three books on India.
(D) A Tale of Two Cities Incorrect. It is a novel by Charles Dickens (1859), set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution.