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 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. 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.
'Remarkable . . . Guerrillas is a brilliant novel in every way, and it shimmers with artistic certainty' - The New York Times
'Impeccable prose, precise, austere . . . Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' - Observer
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
| ISBN: | 9781035091492 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 2026 |
| Author: | Sir VS Naipaul |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Politics Narrative theme: Sense of place Narrative theme: Social issues |
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 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. 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.
'Remarkable . . . Guerrillas is a brilliant novel in every way, and it shimmers with artistic certainty' - The New York Times
'Impeccable prose, precise, austere . . . Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' - Observer
Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
Guerrillas features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues
Guerrillas is available in Paperback
Guerrillas was written by Sir VS Naipaul and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Guerrillas has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Picador Collection series
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