Guerrillas / V.S. Naipaul
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TextPublication details: India Penguin Books 2002Description: 259 pISBN: - 9780330522915
- Fiction NAI-V
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| Fiction NAI-V In a free state : the novel / | Fiction NAI-V Magic seeds : | Fiction NAI-V Nightwatchman's occurrence book / | Fiction NAI-V Guerrillas / | Fiction NAM-K Story that must not be told / | Fiction NAM-S Barnabas : Bombay's first private detective | Fiction NAM-U 31 / |
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 Guerrillas 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. Together with a leader of the ‘revolution’, they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas 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. ‘Impeccable . . . Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul’s Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist’s anatomy of emptiness, and of despair’ Observer
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