{"product_id":"guerrillas-by-vs-naipaul-9781035091492","title":"Guerrillas","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet on a troubled Caribbean island—where Asians, Africans, Americans, and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria—\u003cem\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with a leader of the 'revolution', they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. \u003cem\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRemarkable . . . \u003cem\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant novel in every way, and it shimmers with artistic certainty\u003c\/em\u003e - The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpeccable prose, precise, austere . . . \u003cem\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/em\u003e seems to me Naipaul's \u003cem\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair\u003c\/em\u003e - Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68042776084716,"sku":"9781035091492","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781035091492-guerrillas-1.jpg?v=1793681203","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/guerrillas-by-vs-naipaul-9781035091492","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}