Description
| Product ID: | 9780330522915 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Guerrillas |
| Authors: | Author: V.S. Naipaul |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating V. S. Naipaul’s novel of fraudulent revolution, schizophrenia and murder. <p>Set on a troubled Caribbean island – where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria – V. S. Naipaul's <i>Guerrillas</i> is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions.<br><br> Together with a leader of the ‘revolution’, they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. <i>Guerrillas</i> depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world’s plight.<br><br> ‘Impeccable . . . <i>Guerrillas</i> seems to me Naipaul’s <i>Heart of Darkness</i>: a brilliant artist’s anatomy of emptiness, and of despair’ – <i>Observer</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-08-19 |
