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Record Cod. 31006
| Author: | NAIPAUL, V.S. |
| Title: | GUERRILLAS |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Price: | € 12,40 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Original title: | GUERRILLAS |
| Original language: | English |
| First published: | . |
| Genre: | FICTION - OTHER COUNTRIES |
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Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - "Guerrillas" is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an English woman 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. Place and people are evoked with an intensity unrivalled elsewhere. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. 'Impeccable prose, precise, austere, modulating always from place to people to dialogue with a fastidious reserve. "Guerrillas" seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' - "Observer". |