{"product_id":"guerrillas-1","title":"Guerrillas","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - \u003ci\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether with a leader of the ‘revolution’, they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. \u003ci\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Remarkable . . . \u003ci\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant novel in every way, and it shimmers with artistic certainty’ – \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Impeccable prose, precise, austere . . . \u003ci\u003eGuerrillas\u003c\/i\u003e seems to me Naipaul’s \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e: a brilliant artist’s anatomy of emptiness, and of despair’\u003ci\u003e – Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57257721463128,"sku":"9781035091492","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/guerrillas-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}