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Guerrillas is a 1975 novel by V. S. Naipaul. The book is set on an unnamed, remote Caribbean island populated by a mix of ethnicities, but dominated by post-colonial British. Probably the island is modelled after Trinidad, Naipaul's birthplace.
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Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island – subdued now, almost withdrawn – to work and to help.
10 de fev. de 2021 · 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.
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Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island – subdued now, almost withdrawn – to work and to help.
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There are three main characters. Roche is a white South African liberal, who has escaped from apartheid society (he had been imprisoned and tortured in South Africa) and come to this island to help, with his English girlfriend, Jane. There they meet Jimmy Ahmed, probably based on Michael X, a black commune leader
From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence. “A brilliant novel in every way.… [It]...
12 de set. de 1990 · 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.
- V. S. Naipaul
