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Guerrillas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679731740)
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xFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims.
"A brilliant novel in every way.... [It] shimmers with artistic certainty." --The New York Times Book Review Set on a troubled Carribbean island, where "everybody wants to fight his own little war," where "everyone is a guerrilla," the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island - subdued now, almost withdrawn - to work and to help. Soon his English mistress arrives: casually nihilistic, bored, quickly enticed - excited - by fantasies of native power and sexuality, and blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her acts. At once Roche and Jane are drawn into fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed, a man driven by his own raging fantasies of power, of perverse sensuality, and of the England he half remembers, half sentimentalizes. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 0679731741
ISBN-13: 9780679731740
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/12/1990
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
"A brilliant novel in every way.... [It] shimmers with artistic certainty." --The New York Times Book Review Set on a troubled Carribbean island, where "everybody wants to fight his own little war," where "everyone is a guerrilla," the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island - subdued now, almost withdrawn - to work and to help. Soon his English mistress arrives: casually nihilistic, bored, quickly enticed - excited - by fantasies of native power and sexuality, and blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her acts. At once Roche and Jane are drawn into fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed, a man driven by his own raging fantasies of power, of perverse sensuality, and of the England he half remembers, half sentimentalizes. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 0679731741
ISBN-13: 9780679731740
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/12/1990
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
By V. S. Naipaul
xV.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
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