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Rarely does a book come along which so transcends its apparent subject that the reader is ultimately given something larger, richer, and more revealing than he might initially have imagined. Already published in England to overwhelming acclaim, Shiva Naipaul's Journey to Nowhere is such a book a powerful, lucid, and beautifully written book ( The Spectator ) that is destined to be one of the most controversial works of 1981. In it, this major writer takes us beyond the events and surface details surrounding the tragedy of Jonestown and the People's Temple and gives us his remarkable, unique perspective on the deadly drama of ideas, environments, and unholy alliances that shaped those events both in Guyana and, even more significantly, in America. Journey to Nowhere is, on one level, a brilliantly edgy safari ( New Statesman ) inside the Third World itself a place of increasing importance in our lives and on another, a book about America, about the corrupt and corrupting ideologies and chi-chi politics of the past twenty years that enabled the Reverend Jim Jones and the Temple to flourish and grow powerful in California and Guyana, Drawing on interviews with former members

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Author

Shiva Naipaul

Publisher

New York: Simon and Schuster

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671424718

Category

religious

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Islam

Rating

4.27 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14