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Jonestown by Wilson Harris [Harris, Wilson] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jonestown about?
<p><i>'I was obsessed - let me confess - by cities and settlements in the Central and South Americas that are an enigma to many scholars. I dreamt of their abandonment, their bird-masks, their animal-masks ... Did their inhabitants rebel against the priests, did obscure holocausts occur, civil strife, famine, plague? Was Jonestown the latest manifestation...?'</i><br><br> <i>Jonestown</i> (1996), one of Wilson Harris's most acclaimed creations, is a fictional re-imagining of the real-life ritual mass suicide orchestrated by Reverend Jim Jones in the remote Guyana forest in 1978. The novel's narrator, Francisco Bone, has survived the suicide albeit in a traumatized condition. By way of a dream-book he tries to heal his psychic wound, under the influence of the Mayan concept of time that twins past and future.<br><br> Faber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and children's books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.</p>
Who reads Jonestown?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Wilson Harris [Harris, Wilson]
- Publisher
- FABER AND FABER
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780571283668
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
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