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Guerrillas

by Naipaul, V.S., Naipaul, V. S. · 1990

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Publisher

Vintage

Published

1990

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition format

Paperback

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Review

?A Tolstoyan spirit.... The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.?? John Updike

?Naipaul is a master of English prose.?? J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books

?V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer.... This humor, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original.?? Kingsley Amis, The Spectator

?Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist?s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.?? Evelyn Waugh

?For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul. [He is] the world?s writer, a master of language and perception.?? The New York Times Book Review

Book Description

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

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Literature & Fiction : AuthorsA-Z : ( N ) : NaipaulV.S.
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