Guerrillas

<p>Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - <i>Guerrillas</i> 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.<br><br>Together with a leader of the ‘revolution’, they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. <i>Guerrillas</i> 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.<br><br><b>‘Remarkable . . . <i>Guerrillas</i> is a brilliant novel in every way, and it shimmers with artistic certainty’ – <i>The </i><i>New York Times</i><br><br>‘Impeccable prose, precise, austere . . . <i>Guerrillas</i> seems to me Naipaul’s <i>Heart of Darkness</i>: a brilliant artist’s anatomy of emptiness, and of despair’<i> – Observer</i><br><br>Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.</b></p>