Guerrillas

von V. S. Naipaul

258 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• Reihe: Picador
• ISBN: 9780330522915
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.08.2011
• Größe: 200 x 131 mm
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL